USN-8545-1: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel.
An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:
- ARM64 architecture;
- Block layer subsystem;
- Cryptographic API;
- DMA engine subsystem;
- InfiniBand drivers;
- STMicroelectronics network drivers;
- Network drivers;
- NVME drivers;
- SCSI subsystem;
- USB over IP driver;
- File systems infrastructure;
- Ext4 file system;
- Network file system (NFS) server daemon;
- SMB network file system;
- Kernel thread helper (kthread);
- IPv6 networking;
- Tracing infrastructure;
- Kernel exit() syscall;
- Scatterlist API;
- B.A.T.M.A.N. meshing protocol;
- Ethernet bridge;
- Ceph Core library;
- IPv4 networking;
- Multipath TCP;
- Netfilter;
- RxRPC session sockets;
- SMC sockets;
- X.25 network layer;
(CVE-2026-22984, CVE-2026-23272, CVE-2026-23278, CVE-2026-23392,
CVE-2026-23427, CVE-2026-23428, CVE-2026-23450, CVE-2026-23455,
CVE-2026-31402, CVE-2026-31418, CVE-2026-31436, CVE-2026-31448,
CVE-2026-31478, CVE-2026-31607, CVE-2026-31635, CVE-2026-31637,
CVE-2026-31649, CVE-2026-31657, CVE-2026-31659, CVE-2026-31668,
CVE-2026-31669, CVE-2026-31682, CVE-2026-31685, CVE-2026-31718,
CVE-2026-43011, CVE-2026-43037, CVE-2026-43038, CVE-2026-43071,
CVE-2026-43083, CVE-2026-43114, CVE-2026-43117, CVE-2026-43125,
CVE-2026-43185, CVE-2026-43186, CVE-2026-43197, CVE-2026-43304,
CVE-2026-43341, CVE-2026-43376, CVE-2026-43378, CVE-2026-43383,
CVE-2026-43384, CVE-2026-43402, CVE-2026-43406, CVE-2026-43407,
CVE-2026-43414, CVE-2026-43493, CVE-2026-43501, CVE-2026-45898,
CVE-2026-45988, CVE-2026-46039, CVE-2026-46043, CVE-2026-46115,
CVE-2026-46119, CVE-2026-46135, CVE-2026-46185, CVE-2026-46195,
CVE-2026-46243, CVE-2026-46244, CVE-2026-46266, CVE-2026-46289,
CVE-2026-46316, CVE-2026-46325)