UBUNTU-CVE-2026-100082: Medium severity ubuntu/linux vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xen-blkback: Avoid UAF when reading I/O statistics Reading I/O statistics via sysfs concurrently with tearing down a frontend device might result in UAF or a NULL dereference, as the reading of the statistics data is not synchronized with freeing the data. Use a rwlock for synchronizing. This is XSA-528 / CVE-2026-100082
Affected Software
Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
- Upgrade
Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.
Patch XSA-528