RHSA-2025:15786 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel-rt 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-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Security Fix(es):

• 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.