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Medium ALSA-2025:17812 2 CVEs

Moderate: kernel-rt security update

Published Oct 13, 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: KVM: SVM: Don't BUG if userspace injects an interrupt with GIF=0 (CVE-2022-50228)
* kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free (CVE-2023-53305)

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 4.18.0-553.79.1.rt7.420.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-core 4.18.0-553.79.1.rt7.420.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-debug 4.18.0-553.79.1.rt7.420.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-debug-core 4.18.0-553.79.1.rt7.420.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-debug-devel 4.18.0-553.79.1.rt7.420.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-debug-modules 4.18.0-553.79.1.rt7.420.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra 4.18.0-553.79.1.rt7.420.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-devel 4.18.0-553.79.1.rt7.420.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-modules 4.18.0-553.79.1.rt7.420.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-modules-extra 4.18.0-553.79.1.rt7.420.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 2

  • High 8.8

    Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free Fix potential use-after-free in l2cap_le_command_rej.

  • Unscored —

    KVM: SVM: Don't BUG if userspace injects an interrupt with GIF=0

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM: Don't BUG if userspace injects an interrupt with GIF=0 Don't BUG/WARN on interrupt injection due to GIF being cleared, since it's trivial for userspace to force the situation via KV…

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50228
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-53305
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2373529
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2395858
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2025-17812.html