RHSA-2026:59145 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for multiple packages is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 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

This is a kernel live patch module which can be loaded by the kpatch command line utility to modify the code of a running kernel. This patch module is targeted for kernel-5.14.0-427.68.2.el9_4.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter() (CVE-2026-43499)
• kernel: gfs2: Fix use-after-free in iomap inline data write path (CVE-2026-45984)
• kernel: xfrm: defensively unhash xfrm_state lists in __xfrm_state_delete (CVE-2026-46116)
• kernel: sctp: revalidate list cursor after sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc() in SCTP_SENDALL (CVE-2026-46227)
• kernel: net: openvswitch: reject oversized nested action attrs (CVE-2026-64531)

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle 9.4 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2480453 - CVE-2026-43499 kernel: rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter()
• BZ - 2481922 - CVE-2026-45984 kernel: gfs2: Fix use-after-free in iomap inline data write path
• BZ - 2482523 - CVE-2026-46116 kernel: xfrm: defensively unhash xfrm_state lists in __xfrm_state_delete
• BZ - 2482564 - CVE-2026-46227 kernel: sctp: revalidate list cursor after sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc() in SCTP_SENDALL
• BZ - 2507402 - CVE-2026-64531 kernel: net: openvswitch: reject oversized nested action attrs

CVEs

• CVE-2026-43499
• CVE-2026-45984
• CVE-2026-46116
• CVE-2026-46227
• CVE-2026-64531

References

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