RHSA-2026:85000 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · October 19, 2026

Updated · November 4, 2026

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On.

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):

kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of Service in qla2xxx SCSI driver due to improper command handling after chip reset (CVE-2025-68745)
kernel: ALSA: 6fire: fix use-after-free on disconnect (CVE-2026-31581)
kernel: netfilter: nfnetlink_cthelper: fix OOB read in nfnl_cthelper_dump_table() (CVE-2026-43450)
kernel: crypto: pcrypt - Fix handling of MAY_BACKLOG requests (CVE-2026-43493)
kernel: ipv6: exthdrs: refresh nh pointer after ipv6_hop_jumbo() (CVE-2026-63924)
kernel: ipv6: exthdrs: refresh nh after handling HAO option (CVE-2026-63922)
kernel: ipv6: validate extension header length before copying to cmsg (CVE-2026-63920)
kernel: kernel: strparser: use-after-free via msg_timer_work rearm after strp_done() cancellation ()

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.