RHSA-2026:3293 - 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 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 packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: RDMA/core: Fix "KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ib_register_device" problem (CVE-2025-38022)
• kernel: Linux kernel: Memory corruption in Squashfs due to incorrect block size calculation (CVE-2025-38415)
• kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of Service via out-of-bounds read in USB configuration parsing (CVE-2025-39760)
• kernel: smb: client: let recv_done verify data_offset, data_length and remaining_data_length (CVE-2025-39933)
• kernel: Linux kernel: Use-after-free in proc_readdir_de() can lead to privilege escalation or denial of service. (CVE-2025-40271)
• kernel: Linux kernel ALSA USB audio driver: Buffer overflow leading to information disclosure and denial of service (CVE-2025-40269)
• kernel: ip6_vti: fix slab-use-after-free in decode_session6 (CVE-2023-53821)
• kernel: NFSv4/pNFS: Clear NFS_INO_LAYOUTCOMMIT in pnfs_mark_layout_stateid_invalid (CVE-2025-68349)

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 - 2373326 - CVE-2025-38022 kernel: RDMA/core: Fix "KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ib_register_device" problem
• BZ - 2383404 - CVE-2025-38415 kernel: Linux kernel: Memory corruption in Squashfs due to incorrect block size calculation
• BZ - 2394601 - CVE-2025-39760 kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of Service via out-of-bounds read in USB configuration parsing
• BZ - 2401432 - CVE-2025-39933 kernel: smb: client: let recv_done verify data_offset, data_length and remaining_data_length
• BZ - 2419837 - CVE-2025-40271 kernel: Linux kernel: Use-after-free in proc_readdir_de() can lead to privilege escalation or denial of service.
• BZ - 2419919 - CVE-2025-40269 kernel: Linux kernel ALSA USB audio driver: Buffer overflow leading to information disclosure and denial of service
• BZ - 2420329 - CVE-2023-53821 kernel: ip6_vti: fix slab-use-after-free in decode_session6
• BZ - 2424880 - CVE-2025-68349 kernel: NFSv4/pNFS: Clear NFS_INO_LAYOUTCOMMIT in pnfs_mark_layout_stateid_invalid

CVEs

• CVE-2023-53821
• CVE-2025-38022
• CVE-2025-38415
• CVE-2025-39760
• CVE-2025-39933
• CVE-2025-40269
• CVE-2025-40271
• CVE-2025-68349

References

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