SUSE-SU-2026:2800-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP7 kernel was updated to fix various security issues The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2025-40216: iouring/rsrc: don't rely on user vaddr alignment bsc1259764. - CVE-2025-40341: futex: Don't leak robustlist pointer on exec race bsc1255029. -...

CVE-2025-40119

CVE-2025-40119 affects the Linux kernel ext4 subsystem. The root cause is a potential null dereference in ext4_mb_init() where ext4_mb_avg_fragment_size_destroy() could be invoked with sbi->s_mb_avg_fragment_size uninitialized (e.g., groupinfo slab cache allocation failure), due to missing nul...