ceph

A small change in the Linux kernel’s Ceph client code — replacing a fatal assertion with a graceful error path in osdmap_apply_incremental() — closed CVE‑2026‑22990, eliminating a trivial path to a kernel panic but raising a set of operational and defensive‑coding questions operators should not...

The Linux kernel received a small but consequential bugfix in the Ceph client library (libceph) that corrects a missing error return in the authentication completion path — a change tracked as CVE‑2026‑22992 that, if left unpatched, can leave higher layers confused about authentication state and...