Issued:
2025-09-24
Updated:
2025-09-24

RHSA-2025:16582 - Important: kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_16_1, kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_30_1, kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_40_1, kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_53_1, and kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_72_1 security update

Synopsis

Important: kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_16_1, kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_30_1, kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_40_1, kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_53_1, and kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_72_1 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for multiple packages is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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-4.18.0-553.16.1.el8_10.

Security Fix(es):

  • kernel: net_sched: hfsc: Fix a UAF vulnerability in class with netem as child qdisc (CVE-2025-37890)

  • kernel: net_sched: hfsc: Address reentrant enqueue adding class to eltree twice (CVE-2025-38001)

  • kernel: sch_hfsc: Fix qlen accounting bug when using peek in hfsc_enqueue() (CVE-2025-38000)

  • kernel: net/sched: Always pass notifications when child class becomes empty (CVE-2025-38350)

  • kernel: i2c/designware: Fix an initialization issue (CVE-2025-38380)

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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_648x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle8.10x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian8ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle8.10ppc64le

Updated Packages

  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_53_1-debuginfo-1-5.el8_10.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_40_1-1-7.el8_10.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_40_1-1-7.el8_10.src.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_40_1-debuginfo-1-7.el8_10.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_72_1-1-2.el8_10.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_16_1-debugsource-1-10.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_53_1-debugsource-1-5.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_72_1-1-2.el8_10.src.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_53_1-1-5.el8_10.src.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_53_1-1-5.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_53_1-debuginfo-1-5.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_30_1-1-9.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_30_1-debugsource-1-9.el8_10.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_72_1-debugsource-1-2.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_40_1-debugsource-1-7.el8_10.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_16_1-1-10.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_40_1-debuginfo-1-7.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_40_1-debugsource-1-7.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_30_1-debuginfo-1-9.el8_10.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_72_1-debuginfo-1-2.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_30_1-debuginfo-1-9.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_53_1-debugsource-1-5.el8_10.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_30_1-1-9.el8_10.src.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_30_1-debugsource-1-9.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_16_1-debuginfo-1-10.el8_10.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_40_1-1-7.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_72_1-1-2.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_72_1-debugsource-1-2.el8_10.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_53_1-1-5.el8_10.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_16_1-1-10.el8_10.src.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_16_1-debugsource-1-10.el8_10.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_16_1-debuginfo-1-10.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_30_1-1-9.el8_10.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_72_1-debuginfo-1-2.el8_10.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_16_1-1-10.el8_10.ppc64le.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information