RHSA-2026:54443 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · August 13, 2026
Updated · October 29, 2026
Topic
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
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.
Description
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fix(es):
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kernel: accel/ivpu: Fix signed integer truncation in IPC receive (CVE-2026-53202)
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kernel: net/sched: act_api: use RCU with deferred freeing for action lifecycle (CVE-2026-53264)
Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):
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[RHEL9] tlbflush - Windows Driver Verifier catches FLTMGR/Ntfs crashes during KVM 42-VM soak test on AMD EPYC Turin [rhel-9.8.z] (JIRA:RHEL-214434)
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Kernels 5.14.0-434+ may lose page table dirty bit (and page data) [rhel-9.8.z] (JIRA:RHEL-220787)
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.