RHSA-2025:23000MediumCVSS 7.1

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Published
December 10, 2025
Last Modified
July 30, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2023-53226 →CVE-2025-38724 →

📋 Description

CVE-2023-53226 — kernel: wifi: mwifiex: Fix OOB and integer underflow when rx packets CVE-2025-38724 — kernel: nfsd: handle get_client_locked() failure in nfsd4_setclientid_confirm()

🎯 Affected products149

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.6)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.6)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.6)
  • kernel-abi-stablelists-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
  • kernel-abi-stablelists-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • kernel-abi-stablelists-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.6)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-372.172.1.el8_6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
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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.

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