Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update
🔗 CVE IDs covered (9)
📋 Description
CVE-2025-68183 — kernel: ima: don't clear IMA_DIGSIG flag when setting or removing non-IMA xattr CVE-2026-31613 — kernel: smb: client: fix OOB reads parsing symlink error response CVE-2026-31684 — kernel: net: sched: act_csum: validate nested VLAN headers CVE-2026-43027 — kernel: netfilter: nf_conntrack_helper: pass helper to expect cleanup CVE-2026-43499 — kernel: rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter() CVE-2026-46135 — kernel: nvmet-tcp: fix race between ICReq handling and queue teardown CVE-2026-46189 — kernel: RDMA/vmw_pvrdma: Fix double free on pvrdma_alloc_ucontext() error path CVE-2026-46209 — kernel: drm/gem: Fix inconsistent plane dimension calculation in drm_gem_fb_init_with_funcs() CVE-2026-53166 — kernel: futex/requeue: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in remove_waiter() on self-deadlock
🎯 Affected products52
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.6)
- bpftool-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
- bpftool-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.6)
- bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
- bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.6)
- kernel-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
- kernel-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.6)
- kernel-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
- kernel-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.6)
- kernel-abi-stablelists-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
- kernel-abi-stablelists-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.6)
- kernel-core-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
- kernel-core-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.6)
- kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
- kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.6)
- kernel-debug-core-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
- kernel-debug-core-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.6)
- kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
- kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.6)
- kernel-debug-devel-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
- kernel-debug-devel-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.6)
- kernel-debug-modules-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
- kernel-debug-modules-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.6)
- kernel-debug-modules-extra-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
- kernel-debug-modules-extra-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.6)
- kernel-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
- kernel-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (v.8.6)
- kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
- kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-0:4.18.0-372.201.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS EXTENSION (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: See the security bulletin for a detailed mitigation procedure.
🔗 References (12)
- selfhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:40068
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2422699
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2461480
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2461757
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2464369
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2480453
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482588
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482636
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482654
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492805
- selfhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_40068.json