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High RHSA-2025:16373 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update

Published Sep 23, 2025 · Updated Jul 30, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 28

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::nfv kernel-rt 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::nfv kernel-rt-core 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::nfv kernel-rt-debug 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::nfv kernel-rt-debug-core 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::nfv kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::nfv kernel-rt-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::nfv kernel-rt-debug-kvm 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::nfv kernel-rt-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::nfv kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::nfv kernel-rt-debuginfo 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::nfv kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::nfv kernel-rt-devel 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::nfv kernel-rt-kvm 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::nfv kernel-rt-modules 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::nfv kernel-rt-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::realtime kernel-rt 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::realtime kernel-rt-core 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::realtime kernel-rt-debug 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::realtime kernel-rt-debug-core 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::realtime kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::realtime kernel-rt-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::realtime kernel-rt-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::realtime kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::realtime kernel-rt-debuginfo 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::realtime kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::realtime kernel-rt-devel 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::realtime kernel-rt-modules 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::realtime kernel-rt-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.rt7.417.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.0
    CVE-2025-38461

    vsock: Fix transport_* TOCTOU

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock: Fix transport_* TOCTOU Transport assignment may race with module unload. Protect new_transport from becoming a stale pointer. This also takes care of an insecure call in vsock_use_loca…

    Linux Linux linux-raspi2 linux-hwe Linux Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2383513
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2025/rhsa-2025_16373.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38461
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38461
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38461
  • article
    https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025072507-CVE-2025-38461-33b1@gregkh/T