Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update
🔗 CVE IDs covered (3)
📋 Description
CVE-2023-53226 — kernel: wifi: mwifiex: Fix OOB and integer underflow when rx packets CVE-2023-53257 — kernel: wifi: mac80211: check S1G action frame size CVE-2025-39864 — kernel: wifi: cfg80211: fix use-after-free in cmp_bss()
🎯 Affected products32
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-core-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-core-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-debug-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-debug-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-debug-core-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-debug-core-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-debug-devel-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-debug-devel-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-debug-kvm-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-debug-modules-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-debug-modules-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-devel-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-devel-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-kvm-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-modules-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8)
- kernel-rt-modules-0:4.18.0-553.82.1.rt7.423.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 8)
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✅ Remediation
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect. Workaround: To mitigate this issue, prevent module mwifiex from being loaded. Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for how to blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically. Workaround: To mitigate this issue, prevent module mac80211 from being loaded. Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for how to blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically. Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.
🔗 References (6)
- selfhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19440
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2395253
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2395420
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2396934
- selfhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2025/rhsa-2025_19440.json