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Medium ALSA-2025:1067 2 CVEs

Moderate: kernel-rt security update

Published Feb 5, 2025 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

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: scsi: core: Fix unremoved procfs host directory regression (CVE-2024-26935)
* kernel: arm64/sve: Discard stale CPU state when handling SVE traps (CVE-2024-50275)

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.

Fixed packages 10

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt 4.18.0-553.37.1.rt7.378.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-core 4.18.0-553.37.1.rt7.378.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-debug 4.18.0-553.37.1.rt7.378.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-debug-core 4.18.0-553.37.1.rt7.378.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-debug-devel 4.18.0-553.37.1.rt7.378.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-debug-modules 4.18.0-553.37.1.rt7.378.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra 4.18.0-553.37.1.rt7.378.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-devel 4.18.0-553.37.1.rt7.378.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-modules 4.18.0-553.37.1.rt7.378.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-modules-extra 4.18.0-553.37.1.rt7.378.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 2

  • High 7.3

    arm64/sve: Discard stale CPU state when handling SVE traps

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64/sve: Discard stale CPU state when handling SVE traps The logic for handling SVE traps manipulates saved FPSIMD/SVE state incorrectly, and a race with preemption can result in a task hav…

  • Unscored —

    scsi: core: Fix unremoved procfs host directory regression

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: core: Fix unremoved procfs host directory regression Commit fc663711b944 ("scsi: core: Remove the /proc/scsi/${proc_name} directory earlier") fixed a bug related to modules loading/unlo…

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-26935
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50275
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2278235
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2327198
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2025-1067.html