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Medium ALSA-2026:49851 1 CVE

Moderate: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published Aug 4, 2026 · 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: ipc: limit next_id allocation to the valid ID range (CVE-2026-52923)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

* AlmaLinux8.10 - KVM: s390: Limit adapter indicator access to mapped page (JIRA:AlmaLinux-183880)
* CIFS mounts do not work with the latest kernel (JIRA:AlmaLinux-213976)

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 4.18.0-553.151.1.rt7.492.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-core 4.18.0-553.151.1.rt7.492.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-debug 4.18.0-553.151.1.rt7.492.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-debug-core 4.18.0-553.151.1.rt7.492.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-debug-devel 4.18.0-553.151.1.rt7.492.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-debug-modules 4.18.0-553.151.1.rt7.492.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra 4.18.0-553.151.1.rt7.492.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-devel 4.18.0-553.151.1.rt7.492.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-modules 4.18.0-553.151.1.rt7.492.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-rt-modules-extra 4.18.0-553.151.1.rt7.492.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.8
    CVE-2026-52923 Public exploit

    ipc: limit next_id allocation to the valid ID range

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipc: limit next_id allocation to the valid ID range The checkpoint/restore sysctl path can request the next SysV IPC id through ids->next_id. ipc_idr_alloc() currently forwards that request t…

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-52923
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2492094
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2026-49851.html