RHSA-2025:22801MediumCVSS 7.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Published
December 8, 2025
Last Modified
August 4, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (3)

CVE-2022-50543 →CVE-2023-53401 →CVE-2023-53539 →

📋 Description

CVE-2022-50543 — kernel: RDMA/rxe: Fix mr->map double free CVE-2023-53401 — kernel: mm: kmem: fix a NULL pointer dereference in obj_stock_flush_required() CVE-2023-53539 — kernel: RDMA/rxe: Fix incomplete state save in rxe_requester

🎯 Affected products122

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-abi-stablelists-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-debug-core-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-debug-core-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-debug-core-0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (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 the rdma_rxe module from loading. See https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for instructions on blacklisting kernel modules. 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. Workaround: To mitigate this issue, prevent the rdma_rxe module from being loaded. See https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for instructions on blacklisting kernel modules.

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