RHSA-2025:9584 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support.

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.

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

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: nbd: always initialize struct msghdr completely (CVE-2024-26638)

• kernel: SUNRPC: Fix a suspicious RCU usage warning (CVE-2023-52623)

• kernel: net/sched: flower: Fix chain template offload (CVE-2024-26669)

• kernel: drm/i915/vma: Fix UAF on destroy against retire race (CVE-2024-26939)

• kernel: wifi: mac80211: fix potential sta-link leak (CVE-2024-35838)

• kernel: irqchip/gic-v3-its: Prevent double free on error (CVE-2024-35847)

• kernel: drm/vmwgfx: fix a memleak in vmw_gmrid_man_get_node (CVE-2023-52662)

• kernel: block: fix overflow in blk_ioctl_discard() (CVE-2024-36917)

• kernel: netfilter: nf_tables: prefer nft_chain_validate (CVE-2024-41042)

• kernel: bpf: fix OOB devmap writes when deleting elements (CVE-2024-56615)

• kernel: ndisc: use RCU protection in ndisc_alloc_skb() (CVE-2025-21764)

• kernel: vmxnet3: Fix packet corruption in vmxnet3_xdp_xmit_frame (CVE-2024-58099)

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.