RHSA-2025:14413 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Advanced Update 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.

Description

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

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: sch_hfsc: Fix qlen accounting bug when using peek in hfsc_enqueue() (CVE-2025-38000)
• kernel: sch_hfsc: make hfsc_qlen_notify() idempotent (CVE-2025-38177)
• kernel: net/sched: Always pass notifications when child class becomes empty (CVE-2025-38350)

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 Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2370786 - CVE-2025-38000 kernel: sch_hfsc: Fix qlen accounting bug when using peek in hfsc_enqueue()
• BZ - 2376354 - CVE-2025-38177 kernel: sch_hfsc: make hfsc_qlen_notify() idempotent
• BZ - 2382054 - CVE-2025-38350 kernel: net/sched: Always pass notifications when child class becomes empty

CVEs

• CVE-2025-38000
• CVE-2025-38177
• CVE-2025-38350

References

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