Red Hat alert RHSA-2026:0453-01 (kernel)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.

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.

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

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: HID: multitouch: fix slab out-of-bounds access in mt_report_fixup()
(CVE-2025-39806)

* kernel: audit: fix out-of-bounds read in audit_compare_dname_path()
(CVE-2025-39840)

* kernel: mm: slub: avoid wake up kswapd in set_track_prepare
(CVE-2025-39843)

* kernel: net: phylink: add lock for serializing concurrent pl->phydev
writes with resolver (CVE-2025-39905)

* kernel: iommufd: Fix race during abort for file descriptors
(CVE-2025-39966)

* kernel: tls: wait for pending async decryptions if tls_strp_msg_hold fails
(CVE-2025-40176)

* kernel: sctp: avoid NULL dereference when chunk data buffer is missing
(CVE-2025-40240)

* kernel: drm/vmwgfx: Validate command header size against
SVGA_CMD_MAX_DATASIZE (CVE-2025-40277)

* kernel: usb: dwc3: Fix race condition between concurrent
dwc3_remove_requests() call paths (CVE-2025-68287)

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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