RHSA-2025:15785HighCVSS 7.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Published
September 15, 2025
Last Modified
July 30, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (5)

CVE-2023-53125 →CVE-2025-38350 →CVE-2025-38392 →CVE-2025-38449 →CVE-2025-38684 →

📋 Description

CVE-2023-53125 — kernel: net: usb: smsc75xx: Limit packet length to skb->len CVE-2025-38350 — kernel: net/sched: Always pass notifications when child class becomes empty CVE-2025-38392 — kernel: idpf: convert control queue mutex to a spinlock CVE-2025-38449 — kernel: drm/gem: Acquire references on GEM handles for framebuffers CVE-2025-38684 — kernel: net/sched: ets: use old 'nbands' while purging unused classes

🎯 Affected products122

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-abi-stablelists-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-debug-core-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-debug-core-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • kernel-debug-core-0:4.18.0-553.75.1.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: To mitigate this issue, prevent module smsc75xx 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: To mitigate this issue, prevent the sch_cbs module from being loaded. Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for how information on how to blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically. Workaround: To mitigate this issue, prevent module idpf 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: To mitigate this issue, prevent module drm 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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