Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.12.102, 6.6.150, 6.1.182, 5.15.215, 5.10.264 stable kernels. This round of stable kernel releases contains a fix for a single bug, found by Thomas Lamprecht, that affected several of the kernels released yesterday in response to a security vulnerability (CVE-2026-68480) that could allow data leakage through speculative execution.

The 6.12.102 release adds the backported security fix for CVE-2026-68480 to the 6.12 series. As always, users are advised to upgrade.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (compat-libtiff3, fence-agents, firefox, freerdp, frr, gimp, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, java-25-openjdk, kernel, kernel-rt, ldns, libgcrypt, libXfont2, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, p11-kit, pipewire, resource-agents, sg3_utils, thunderbird, and yelp), Debian (async-http-client, jq, kernel, linux-6.1, linux-6.12, redis, and udisks2), Fedora (abrt, chromium, coreutils, curl, freeipa, gst-devtools, gst-editing-services, gstreamer1, gstreamer1-doc, gstreamer1-plugin-libav, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free, gstreamer1-rtsp-server, ImageMagick, kernel, libXfont2, php, python-gstreamer1, samba, tcpreplay, and trafficserver), Mageia (firefox, nss, rootcerts, python-django, and thunderbird), Oracle (freerdp, gimp, gpsd, kernel, kernel-uek, and osbuild-composer), Red Hat (buildah and container-tools:rhel8), Slackware (libXfont2 and p11-kit), and SUSE (amazon-ecs-init, azure-storage-azcopy, bind, bouncycastle, cockpit-repos, cockpit-subscriptions, dnsdist, ffmpeg-4, hawk-apiserver, nodejs22, nodejs24, OpenImageIO, openssl-1_1, openssl-3, perl-Mojo-JWT, php8, rsyslog, sssd, and wireshark).

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