RHSA-2025:15471 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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: bpf: Don't use tnum_range on array range checking for poke descriptors (CVE-2022-49985)
• kernel: posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handle_posix_cpu_timers() and posix_cpu_timer_del() (CVE-2025-38352)

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 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2373540 - CVE-2022-49985 kernel: bpf: Don't use tnum_range on array range checking for poke descriptors
• BZ - 2382581 - CVE-2025-38352 kernel: posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handle_posix_cpu_timers() and posix_cpu_timer_del()

CVEs

• CVE-2022-49985
• CVE-2025-38352

References

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