RHSA-2025:23947MediumCVSS 7.6

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Published
December 22, 2025
Last Modified
August 13, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (11)

CVE-2023-53297 →CVE-2025-38729 →CVE-2022-50356 →CVE-2022-50367 →CVE-2022-50403 · pendingCVE-2022-50410 →CVE-2023-53178 →CVE-2023-53322 →CVE-2025-39757 →CVE-2025-39955 →CVE-2022-50406 →

📋 Description

CVE-2022-50356 — kernel: net: sched: sfb: fix null pointer access issue when sfb_init() fails CVE-2022-50367 — kernel: fs: fix UAF/GPF bug in nilfs_mdt_destroy CVE-2022-50403 — kernel: ext4: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for ext4_check_flag_values CVE-2022-50406 — kernel: iomap: iomap: fix memory corruption when recording errors during writeback CVE-2022-50410 — kernel: NFSD: Protect against send buffer overflow in NFSv2 READ CVE-2023-53178 — kernel: mm: fix zswap writeback race condition CVE-2023-53297 — kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP: fix "bad unlock balance" in l2cap_disconnect_rsp CVE-2023-53322 — kernel: scsi: qla2xxx: Wait for io return on terminate rport CVE-2025-38729 — kernel: ALSA: usb-audio: Validate UAC3 power domain descriptors, too CVE-2025-39757 — kernel: ALSA: usb-audio: Validate UAC3 cluster segment descriptors CVE-2025-39955 — kernel: tcp: Clear tcp_sk(sk)->fastopen_rsk in tcp_disconnect()

🎯 Affected products95

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7 ELS)
  • bpftool-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • bpftool-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • bpftool-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • bpftool-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7 ELS)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7 ELS)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7 ELS)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • kernel-bootwrapper-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • kernel-bootwrapper-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7 ELS)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7 ELS)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-1160.144.1.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
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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: 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 (14)