Seven stable kernels with fixes for three Xen vulnerabilities
Hot on the heels of the previous two stable kernels, Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.3.3, 6.18.62, 6.12.116, 6.6.162, 6.1.192,…
Why am I seeing this Ranked on recency
It is here mostly because it is new. Freshness is the largest single contributor to its score, which means nothing about the story except that it is recent.
Nothing much is corroborating this yet. On a quiet day in security that is enough to reach the top of the section — recency, not significance, is doing the work here.
Link-outLink-out, because only one organisation carries it and no first-party source is on it. Link-out means we point at the publisher and say nothing of our own.
| Factor | Weight | Score | Contribution | Where it came from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corroboration | 0.35 | 0.39 | +0.135 30% | 1 independent org on the story. Tier-3 aggregators never corroborate — they can show something is circulating, never that it is true. |
| Source trust | 0.25 | 0.49 | +0.124 27% | LWN is the highest-trust source on this story. Trust is taken from the best source, not averaged. |
| Pickup rate | 0.20 | 0.00 | +0.000 0% | One counted organisation, so there is no spread to measure — nothing has picked this up to set a rate. |
| Freshnessleads | 0.20 | 0.98 | +0.196 43% | Halves every 10 hours from the newest item on the story. This is the only factor that rewards a story for nothing more than being recent. |
Corroboration counts distinct organisations, once each, and only from tiers 1 and 2. Freshness halves every 10 hours, so this ranking is a snapshot and will differ at the next build.
AnsyahF · GPL · Wikimedia Commons · illustrativeWhat happened
Hot on the heels of the previous two stable kernels, Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.3.3, 6.18.62, 6.12.116, 6.6.162, 6.1.192, 5.15.225, and 5.10.274 stable kernels. Each one only contains fixes for three use-after-free vulnerabilities announced today by the Xen security team. Two of the vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) for the entire Xen host machine with possible information leakage ( CVE-2026-100080, CVE-2026-100082 ), and one may allow privilege escalation as well as a DoS of the host machine ( CVE-2026-100081 ). Users should, of course, upgrade if they are using Xen.
How this story arrived
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