RHSA-2025:2501 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support.

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: HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer (CVE-2024-50302)

• kernel: can: bcm: Fix UAF in bcm_proc_show() (CVE-2023-52922)

• kernel: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential out-of-bound accesses for Extigy and Mbox devices (CVE-2024-53197)

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.