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Vulnerabilities & PatchesEmerging1 sourceAug 7, 2026 · 13:35via LWN.net

Stable kernel releases for Friday with a single bug fix

Brief

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.

  • 102 , 6.
  • 150 , 6.
  • 182 , 5.
  • 215 , 5.
  • 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.

  • 102 release adds the backported security fix for CVE-2026-68480 to the 6. 12 series. As always, users are advised to
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