Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update
🔗 CVE IDs covered (12)
📋 Description
CVE-2023-53401 — kernel: mm: kmem: fix a NULL pointer dereference in obj_stock_flush_required() CVE-2023-53513 — kernel: nbd: fix incomplete validation of ioctl arg CVE-2023-53675 — kernel: scsi: ses: Fix possible desc_ptr out-of-bounds accesses CVE-2023-53680 — kernel: NFSD: Avoid calling OPDESC() with ops->opnum == OP_ILLEGAL CVE-2023-53705 — kernel: ipv6: Fix out-of-bounds access in ipv6_find_tlv() CVE-2025-38051 — kernel: smb: client: Fix use-after-free in cifs_fill_dirent CVE-2025-39817 — kernel: efivarfs: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in efivarfs_d_compare CVE-2025-39825 — kernel: smb: client: fix race with concurrent opens in rename(2) CVE-2025-39883 — kernel: mm/memory-failure: fix VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page)) when unpoison memory CVE-2025-39898 — kernel: e1000e: fix heap overflow in e1000_set_eeprom CVE-2025-39993 — kernel: media: rc: fix races with imon_disconnect() CVE-2025-68285 — kernel: libceph: fix potential use-after-free in have_mon_and_osd_map()
🎯 Affected products52
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.4)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.4)
- bpftool-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.4)
- bpftool-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.4)
- bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.4)
- bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.4)
- kernel-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.4)
- kernel-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.4)
- kernel-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.4)
- kernel-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.4)
- kernel-abi-stablelists-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.4)
- kernel-abi-stablelists-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.4)
- kernel-core-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.4)
- kernel-core-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.4)
- kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.4)
- kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.4)
- kernel-debug-core-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.4)
- kernel-debug-core-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.4)
- kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.4)
- kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.4)
- kernel-debug-devel-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.4)
- kernel-debug-devel-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.4)
- kernel-debug-modules-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.4)
- kernel-debug-modules-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.4)
- kernel-debug-modules-extra-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.4)
- kernel-debug-modules-extra-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.4)
- kernel-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.4)
- kernel-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.4)
- kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.4)
- kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-0:4.18.0-305.183.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.4)
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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. Workaround: To mitigate this issue, prevent module ses 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 nfs from being loaded. Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for how to blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically.
🔗 References (15)
- selfhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0533
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2373329
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2395792
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2395805
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2396417
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2397553
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2400598
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2400795
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2402213
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2402293
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2404121
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2405713
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2422801
- selfhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_0533.json