RHSA-2025:13120 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 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: media: uvcvideo: Remove dangling pointers (CVE-2024-58002)
• kernel: media: uvcvideo: Fix double free in error path (CVE-2024-57980)
• kernel: HID: intel-ish-hid: Fix use-after-free issue in ishtp_hid_remove() (CVE-2025-21928)
• kernel: misc/vmw_vmci: fix an infoleak in vmci_host_do_receive_datagram() (CVE-2022-49788)
• kernel: net/tipc: fix slab-use-after-free Read in tipc_aead_encrypt_done (CVE-2025-38052)

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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2348513 - CVE-2024-58002 kernel: media: uvcvideo: Remove dangling pointers
• BZ - 2348599 - CVE-2024-57980 kernel: media: uvcvideo: Fix double free in error path
• BZ - 2356592 - CVE-2025-21928 kernel: HID: intel-ish-hid: Fix use-after-free issue in ishtp_hid_remove()
• BZ - 2363378 - CVE-2022-49788 kernel: misc/vmw_vmci: fix an infoleak in vmci_host_do_receive_datagram()
• BZ - 2373380 - CVE-2025-38052 kernel: net/tipc: fix slab-use-after-free Read in tipc_aead_encrypt_done

CVEs

• CVE-2022-49788
• CVE-2024-57980
• CVE-2024-58002
• CVE-2025-21928
• CVE-2025-38052

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important