RHSA-2025:15785 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: net: usb: smsc75xx: Limit packet length to skb->len (CVE-2023-53125)

• kernel: net/sched: Always pass notifications when child class becomes empty (CVE-2025-38350)

• kernel: idpf: convert control queue mutex to a spinlock (CVE-2025-38392)

• kernel: drm/gem: Acquire references on GEM handles for framebuffers (CVE-2025-38449)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.