RHSA-2025:22087 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · November 26, 2025
Updated · November 2, 2026
Topic
An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.
Description
The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.
Security Fix(es):
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kernel: ALSA: usb-audio: Validate UAC3 power domain descriptors, too (CVE-2025-38729)
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kernel: ALSA: usb-audio: Validate UAC3 cluster segment descriptors (CVE-2025-39757)
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kernel: x86/vmscape: Add conditional IBPB mitigation (CVE-2025-40300)
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kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP: fix "bad unlock balance" in l2cap_disconnect_rsp (CVE-2023-53297)
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kernel: efivarfs: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in efivarfs_d_compare (CVE-2025-39817)
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kernel: cifs: fix oops during encryption (CVE-2022-50341)
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kernel: ip6mr: Fix skb_under_panic in ip6mr_cache_report() (CVE-2023-53365)
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kernel: RDMA/mlx5: Fix mlx5_ib_get_hw_stats when used for device (CVE-2023-53393)
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kernel: ext4: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for ext4_check_flag_values (CVE-2022-50403)
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.