RHSA-2025:19103 - Security Advisory

Topic

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

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP: fix "bad unlock balance" in l2cap_disconnect_rsp (CVE-2023-53297)
• kernel: efivarfs: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in efivarfs_d_compare (CVE-2025-39817)
• kernel: Bluetooth: Fix potential use-after-free when clear keys (CVE-2023-53386)
• kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix user-after-free (CVE-2022-50386)
• kernel: wifi: cfg80211: sme: cap SSID length in __cfg80211_connect_result() (CVE-2025-39849)
• kernel: scsi: lpfc: Fix buffer free/clear order in deferred receive path (CVE-2025-39841)

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 Real Time 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2395681 - CVE-2023-53297 kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP: fix "bad unlock balance" in l2cap_disconnect_rsp
• BZ - 2395805 - CVE-2025-39817 kernel: efivarfs: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in efivarfs_d_compare
• BZ - 2396419 - CVE-2023-53386 kernel: Bluetooth: Fix potential use-after-free when clear keys
• BZ - 2396431 - CVE-2022-50386 kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix user-after-free
• BZ - 2396928 - CVE-2025-39849 kernel: wifi: cfg80211: sme: cap SSID length in __cfg80211_connect_result()
• BZ - 2396944 - CVE-2025-39841 kernel: scsi: lpfc: Fix buffer free/clear order in deferred receive path

CVEs

• CVE-2022-50386
• CVE-2023-53297
• CVE-2023-53386
• CVE-2025-39817
• CVE-2025-39841
• CVE-2025-39849

References

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