Issued:
2026-07-29
Updated:
2026-07-29

RHSA-2026:47633 - Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On.

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

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

  • kernel: ima: don't clear IMA_DIGSIG flag when setting or removing non-IMA xattr (CVE-2025-68183)

  • kernel: crypto: asymmetric_keys - prevent overflow in asymmetric_key_generate_id (CVE-2025-68724)

  • kernel: smb: client: fix OOB reads parsing symlink error response (CVE-2026-31613)

  • kernel: net: sched: act_csum: validate nested VLAN headers (CVE-2026-31684)

  • kernel: netfilter: nf_conntrack_helper: pass helper to expect cleanup (CVE-2026-43027)

  • kernel: ALSA: usb-audio: Add sanity check for OOB writes at silencing (CVE-2026-43279)

  • kernel: xfrm: defensively unhash xfrm_state lists in __xfrm_state_delete (CVE-2026-46116)

  • kernel: RDMA/vmw_pvrdma: Fix double free on pvrdma_alloc_ucontext() error path (CVE-2026-46189)

  • kernel: drm/gem: Fix inconsistent plane dimension calculation in drm_gem_fb_init_with_funcs() (CVE-2026-46209)

  • kernel: nvmet-tcp: fix race between ICReq handling and queue teardown (CVE-2026-46135)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

  • [FJ8.6 Bug]: Backport request of "mm: swap: get rid of livelock in swapin readahead" to RHEL 8.4 AUS (JIRA:RHEL-182028)

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_64 - Extended Life Cycle Long Life8.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS8.4x86_64

Updated Packages

  • kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.noarch.rpm
  • kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • python3-perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-core-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • python3-perf-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • bpftool-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-tools-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.src.rpm
  • bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-modules-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-doc-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.noarch.rpm
  • kernel-headers-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-devel-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • perf-4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information