RHSA-2025:13589MediumCVSS 7.1

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Published
August 11, 2025
Last Modified
August 4, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (6)

CVE-2021-47670 →CVE-2024-56644 →CVE-2025-21727 →CVE-2025-21759 →CVE-2025-38085 →CVE-2025-38159 →

📋 Description

CVE-2021-47670 — kernel: can: peak_usb: fix use after free bugs CVE-2024-56644 — kernel: net/ipv6: release expired exception dst cached in socket CVE-2025-21727 — kernel: padata: fix UAF in padata_reorder CVE-2025-21759 — kernel: ipv6: mcast: extend RCU protection in igmp6_send() CVE-2025-38085 — kernel: mm/hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race CVE-2025-38159 — kernel: wifi: rtw88: fix the 'para' buffer size to avoid reading out of bounds

🎯 Affected products122

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-abi-stablelists-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-debug-core-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-debug-core-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-debug-core-0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 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: 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. 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.

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