Red Hat alert RHSA-2025:17958-01 (kernel)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4
Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Moderate. 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.

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

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: net: usb: smsc75xx: Limit packet length to skb->len
(CVE-2023-53125)

* kernel: firmware: arm_scpi: Ensure scpi_info is not assigned if the probe
fails (CVE-2022-50087)

* kernel: idpf: convert control queue mutex to a spinlock (CVE-2025-38392)

* kernel: do_change_type(): refuse to operate on unmounted/not ours mounts
(CVE-2025-38498)

* kernel: ipv6: mcast: Delay put pmc->idev in mld_del_delrec()
(CVE-2025-38550)

* kernel: sunrpc: fix handling of server side tls alerts (CVE-2025-38566)

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.

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