Daily update · Aug 13–14, 2026
Linux mainline: SCTP LPE and remote UAFs, XDP memory leak, TCP ACK storms, veth GRO stall fixed
Today's mainline updates close a local privilege escalation in SCTP cookie handling, two remotely triggerable SCTP use-after-free bugs, a kernel pointer leak through XDP fragment accounting, and a stack out-of-bounds write in IPVS ICMP tunneling, alongside notable networking stability fixes.
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