RHSA-2025:2488 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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: HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer (CVE-2024-50302)
• kernel: can: bcm: Fix UAF in bcm_proc_show() (CVE-2023-52922)
• kernel: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential out-of-bound accesses for Extigy and Mbox devices (CVE-2024-53197)

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 for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.0 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2327169 - CVE-2024-50302 kernel: HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer
• BZ - 2329370 - CVE-2023-52922 kernel: can: bcm: Fix UAF in bcm_proc_show()
• BZ - 2334412 - CVE-2024-53197 kernel: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential out-of-bound accesses for Extigy and Mbox devices

CVEs

• CVE-2023-52922
• CVE-2024-50302
• CVE-2024-53197

References

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