Seven stable kernels for Saturday including two security fixes

Greg Kroah-Hartman released seven stable kernels on Saturday, including security fixes for two vulnerabilities. The updates address CVE-2026-53362, an IPv6 flaw introduced in kernel 6.0 that could allow container escape and root access, and CVE-2026-53359, a KVM use-after-free bug present since kernel 2.6.36. Users are advised to upgrade immediately.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.1.3 https://lwn.net/Articles/1081231/ , 6.18.38 https://lwn.net/Articles/1081232/ , 6.12.95 https://lwn.net/Articles/1081233/ , 6.6.144 https://lwn.net/Articles/1081234/ , 6.1.177 https://lwn.net/Articles/1081235/ , 5.15.211 https://lwn.net/Articles/1081236/ , and 5.10.260 https://lwn.net/Articles/1081237/ stable kernels. Several kernels in this batch include a fix https://lwn.net/ml/all/2026070450-CVE-2026-53362-fe9b%40gregkh/ for a vulnerability introduced in the 6.0 kernel in IPv6 CVE-2026-53362 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53362 , which could allow an attacker to escape a container and gain root access https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2026-009 . There is also a fix https://lwn.net/ml/all/2026070403-CVE-2026-53359-4f57%40gregkh/ for a use-after-free bug in KVM CVE-2026-53359 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53359 that was introduced in the 2.6.36 kernel. As usual, each stable kernel includes a number of fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade.