RHSA-2025:15649HighCVSS 7.1

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Published
September 10, 2025
Last Modified
October 24, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (4)

CVE-2025-38332 →CVE-2025-38352 →CVE-2023-2513 →CVE-2025-38159 →

📋 Description

CVE-2023-2513 — kernel: ext4: use-after-free in ext4_xattr_set_entry() CVE-2025-38159 — kernel: wifi: rtw88: fix the 'para' buffer size to avoid reading out of bounds CVE-2025-38332 — kernel: scsi: lpfc: Use memcpy() for BIOS version CVE-2025-38352 — kernel: posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handle_posix_cpu_timers() and posix_cpu_timer_del()

🎯 Affected products48

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-abi-stablelists-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-debug-core-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-debug-core-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-debug-devel-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-debug-devel-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-debug-modules-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-debug-modules-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-debug-modules-extra-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-debug-modules-extra-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-devel-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-devel-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • kernel-doc-0:4.18.0-477.110.1.el8_8.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
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✅ Remediation

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. Workaround: To mitigate this issue, prevent module rtw88 from being loaded. Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for how to blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically. Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

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