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Medium ALSA-2025:15009 2 CVEs

Moderate: kernel-rt security update

Published Sep 2, 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: RDMA/iwcm: Fix use-after-free of work objects after cm_id destruction (CVE-2025-38211)
* kernel: tipc: Fix use-after-free in tipc_conn_close() (CVE-2025-38464)

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 4.18.0-553.72.1.rt7.413.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-core 4.18.0-553.72.1.rt7.413.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-debug 4.18.0-553.72.1.rt7.413.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-debug-core 4.18.0-553.72.1.rt7.413.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-debug-devel 4.18.0-553.72.1.rt7.413.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-debug-modules 4.18.0-553.72.1.rt7.413.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra 4.18.0-553.72.1.rt7.413.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-devel 4.18.0-553.72.1.rt7.413.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-modules 4.18.0-553.72.1.rt7.413.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-modules-extra 4.18.0-553.72.1.rt7.413.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Critical 9.8

    RDMA/iwcm: Fix use-after-free of work objects after cm_id destruction

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/iwcm: Fix use-after-free of work objects after cm_id destruction The commit 59c68ac31e15 ("iw_cm: free cm_id resources on the last deref") simplified cm_id resource management by freeing…

  • High 7.8

    tipc: Fix use-after-free in tipc_conn_close().

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: Fix use-after-free in tipc_conn_close(). syzbot reported a null-ptr-deref in tipc_conn_close() during netns dismantle. [0] tipc_topsrv_stop() iterates tipc_net(net)->topsrv->conn_idr an…

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38211
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38464
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2376406
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2383509
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2025-15009.html