There's been over a thousand memory safety CVEs in the kernel this year alone [0], the most recent published 2 days ago. Most of these aren't exploitable and ar

There's been over a thousand memory safety CVEs in the kernel this year alone [0], the most recent published 2 days ago. Most of these aren't exploitable and are caught before stable, so I went to LWN instead and "scrolled down" until I saw an article that mentioned a memory safety vuln in stable kernels. "Scrolled down" is in quotes because there was no scrolling involved. Today's Friday security updates post links USN-7861-3 [1], which includes fixes for memory safety issues like CVE-2025-37838 [2]. [0] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-33/product_id-47/year-2025/opmemc-1/Linux-Linux-Kernel.html https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-33/p... [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/1046495/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1046495/ [2] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-37838 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-37838