Red Hat alert RHSA-2026:21745-01 (kernel-rt) [LWN.net]

An update for kernel-rt 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. The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements. Security Fix(es): * kernel: Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix possible UAFs (CVE-2025-39981) * kernel: ima: don't clear IMA_DIGSIG flag when setting or removing non-IMA xattr (CVE-2025-68183) * kernel: ALSA: firewire-motu: fix buffer overflow in hwdep read for DSP events (CVE-2025-68347) * kernel: libceph: make decode_pool() more resilient against corrupted osdmaps (CVE-2025-71116) * kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of service and memory corruption in RDMA umad (CVE-2026-23243) * kernel: Linux kernel: Use-after-free in traffic control (act_ct) may lead to denial of service or privilege escalation (CVE-2026-23270) * kernel: netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: check for zero length in DecodeQ931() (CVE-2026-23455) * kernel: Bluetooth: SCO: Fix use-after-free in sco_recv_frame() due to missing sock_hold (CVE-2026-31408) * kernel: can: raw: fix ro->uniq use-after-free in raw_rcv() (CVE-2026-31532) * kernel: net: sched: act_csum: validate nested VLAN headers (CVE-2026-31684) * kernel: netfilter: ip6t_eui64: reject invalid MAC header for all packets (CVE-2026-31685) * kernel: netfilter: nf_conntrack_helper: pass helper to expect cleanup (CVE-2026-43027) * kernel: Bluetooth: MGMT: validate LTK enc_size on load (CVE-2026-43020) * kernel: HID: wacom: fix out-of-bounds read in wacom_intuos_bt_irq (CVE-2026-43051) * kernel: smb: client: validate the whole DACL before rewriting it in cifsacl (CVE-2026-31709) * kernel: md/bitmap: fix GPF in write_page caused by resize race (CVE-2026-43163) * kernel: netfilter: xt_tcpmss: check remaining length before reading optlen (CVE-2026-43190) * kernel: xfs: fix freemap adjustments when adding xattrs to leaf blocks (CVE-2026-43158) 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. This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.

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