Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update
🔗 CVE IDs covered (14)
📋 Description
CVE-2025-22105 — kernel: bonding: check xdp prog when set bond mode CVE-2025-37980 — kernel: block: fix resource leak in blk_register_queue() error path CVE-2025-38015 — kernel: dmaengine: idxd: fix memory leak in error handling path of idxd_alloc CVE-2025-38097 — kernel: espintcp: remove encap socket caching to avoid reference leak CVE-2025-38166 — kernel: bpf: fix ktls panic with sockmap CVE-2025-38279 — kernel: bpf: Do not include stack ptr register in precision backtracking bookkeeping CVE-2025-38400 — kernel: nfs: Clean up /proc/net/rpc/nfs when nfs_fs_proc_net_init() fails CVE-2025-38405 — kernel: nvmet: fix memory leak of bio integrity CVE-2025-38441 — kernel: netfilter: flowtable: account for Ethernet header in nf_flow_pppoe_proto() CVE-2025-38470 — kernel: net: vlan: fix VLAN 0 refcount imbalance of toggling filtering during runtime CVE-2025-39866 — kernel: fs: writeback: fix use-after-free in __mark_inode_dirty() CVE-2025-40134 — kernel: dm: fix NULL pointer dereference in __dm_suspend() CVE-2026-23040 — kernel: wifi: mac80211_hwsim: fix typo in frequency notification CVE-2026-23243 — kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of service and memory corruption in RDMA umad
🎯 Affected products200
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time (v. 9)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV (v. 9)
- kernel-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- kernel-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- kernel-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- kernel-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- kernel-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- kernel-64k-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- kernel-64k-core-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- kernel-64k-debug-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- kernel-64k-debug-core-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- kernel-64k-debug-debuginfo-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- kernel-64k-debug-debuginfo-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- kernel-64k-debug-debuginfo-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)
- kernel-64k-debug-debuginfo-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time (v. 9)
- kernel-64k-debug-devel-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- kernel-64k-debug-modules-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- kernel-64k-debug-modules-core-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- kernel-64k-debug-modules-extra-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- kernel-64k-debuginfo-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- kernel-64k-debuginfo-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- kernel-64k-debuginfo-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)
- kernel-64k-debuginfo-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time (v. 9)
- kernel-64k-devel-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- kernel-64k-devel-matched-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- kernel-64k-modules-0:5.14.0-687.5.1.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
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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 mac80211_hwsim 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 ib_umad 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 (31)
- selfhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18587
- externalhttps://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.8_release_notes/index
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2360247
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2367614
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2373343
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2376060
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2376065
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2379178
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2383397
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2383399
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2383478
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2383906
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2396940
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2414468
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2436806
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2448594
- externalhttps://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-101326
- externalhttps://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-101342
- externalhttps://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-107273
- externalhttps://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-107917
- externalhttps://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-109634
- externalhttps://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-111113
- externalhttps://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-116075
- externalhttps://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-125143
- externalhttps://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-141481
- externalhttps://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-145938
- externalhttps://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-147489
- externalhttps://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-9065
- externalhttps://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-95934
- selfhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_18587.json