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Critical RHSA-2026:26462 21 CVEs

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update

Published Jun 17, 2026 · Updated Nov 13, 2026

Fixed packages 32

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Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::nfv kernel-rt 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::nfv kernel-rt-core 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::nfv kernel-rt-debug 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::nfv kernel-rt-debug-core 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::nfv kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::nfv kernel-rt-debug-devel 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::nfv kernel-rt-debug-kvm 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::nfv kernel-rt-debug-modules 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::nfv kernel-rt-debug-modules-core 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::nfv kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::nfv kernel-rt-debuginfo 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::nfv kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::nfv kernel-rt-devel 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::nfv kernel-rt-kvm 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::nfv kernel-rt-modules 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::nfv kernel-rt-modules-core 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::nfv kernel-rt-modules-extra 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::realtime kernel-rt 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::realtime kernel-rt-core 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::realtime kernel-rt-debug 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::realtime kernel-rt-debug-core 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::realtime kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::realtime kernel-rt-debug-devel 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::realtime kernel-rt-debug-modules 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::realtime kernel-rt-debug-modules-core 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::realtime kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::realtime kernel-rt-debuginfo 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::realtime kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::realtime kernel-rt-devel 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::realtime kernel-rt-modules 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::realtime kernel-rt-modules-core 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 E4S rhel_e4s:9.2::realtime kernel-rt-modules-extra 0:5.14.0-284.176.1.rt14.461.el9_2

Vulnerabilities 21

  • Critical 9.8

    libceph: prevent potential out-of-bounds reads in handle_auth_done()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: libceph: prevent potential out-of-bounds reads in handle_auth_done() Perform an explicit bounds check on payload_len to avoid a possible out-of-bounds access in the callout. [ idryomov: chang…

  • Critical 9.4

    netfilter: ip6t_eui64: reject invalid MAC header for all packets

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ip6t_eui64: reject invalid MAC header for all packets `eui64_mt6()` derives a modified EUI-64 from the Ethernet source address and compares it with the low 64 bits of the IPv6 sour…

  • Critical 9.1

    libceph: make decode_pool() more resilient against corrupted osdmaps

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: libceph: make decode_pool() more resilient against corrupted osdmaps If the osdmap is (maliciously) corrupted such that the encoded length of ceph_pg_pool envelope is less than what is expect…

  • Critical 9.1

    netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: check for zero length in DecodeQ931()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: check for zero length in DecodeQ931() In DecodeQ931(), the UserUserIE code path reads a 16-bit length from the packet, then decrements it by 1 to skip the protoc…

  • High 8.8

    wifi: brcmfmac: validate bsscfg indices in IF events

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: brcmfmac: validate bsscfg indices in IF events brcmf_fweh_handle_if_event() validates the firmware-provided interface index before it touches drvr->iflist[], but it still uses the raw b…

  • High 8.8

    xfs: fix freemap adjustments when adding xattrs to leaf blocks

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: fix freemap adjustments when adding xattrs to leaf blocks xfs/592 and xfs/794 both trip this assertion in the leaf block freemap adjustment code after ~20 minutes of running on my test V…

  • High 8.8

    wifi: mac80211: remove station if connection prep fails

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: remove station if connection prep fails If connection preparation fails for MLO connections, then the interface is completely reset to non-MLD. In this case, we must not keep …

  • High 8.2

    netfilter: xt_tcpmss: check remaining length before reading optlen

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: xt_tcpmss: check remaining length before reading optlen Quoting reporter: In net/netfilter/xt_tcpmss.c (lines 53-68), the TCP option parser reads op[i+1] directly without validatin…

  • High 8.1

    ipv6: use RCU in ip6_xmit()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: use RCU in ip6_xmit() Use RCU in ip6_xmit() in order to use dst_dev_rcu() to prevent possible UAF.

  • High 8.1

    ipv6: use RCU in ip6_output()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: use RCU in ip6_output() Use RCU in ip6_output() in order to use dst_dev_rcu() to prevent possible UAF. We can remove rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pairs from ip6_finish_output2().

  • High 7.8

    net: use dst_dev_rcu() in sk_setup_caps()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: use dst_dev_rcu() in sk_setup_caps() Use RCU to protect accesses to dst->dev from sk_setup_caps() and sk_dst_gso_max_size(). Also use dst_dev_rcu() in ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward(), and ip…

  • High 7.8

    crypto: asymmetric_keys - prevent overflow in asymmetric_key_generate_id

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: asymmetric_keys - prevent overflow in asymmetric_key_generate_id Use check_add_overflow() to guard against potential integer overflows when adding the binary blob lengths and the size…

  • High 7.8

    iommu: disable SVA when CONFIG_X86 is set

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu: disable SVA when CONFIG_X86 is set Patch series "Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space", v7. This proposes a fix for a security vulnerability related to IOMMU Shared Virtual…

  • High 7.8

    netfilter: nf_tables: release flowtable after rcu grace period on error

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_tables: release flowtable after rcu grace period on error Call synchronize_rcu() after unregistering the hooks from error path, since a hook that already refers to this flowtabl…

  • High 7.8

    netfilter: ctnetlink: ensure safe access to master conntrack

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ctnetlink: ensure safe access to master conntrack Holding reference on the expectation is not sufficient, the master conntrack object can just go away, making exp->master invalid. …

  • High 7.8

    mm/page_alloc: clear page->private in free_pages_prepare()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/page_alloc: clear page->private in free_pages_prepare() Several subsystems (slub, shmem, ttm, etc.) use page->private but don't clear it before freeing pages. When these pages are later al…

  • High 7.8

    sctp: revalidate list cursor after sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc() in SCTP_SENDALL

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: revalidate list cursor after sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc() in SCTP_SENDALL The SCTP_SENDALL path in sctp_sendmsg() iterates ep->asocs with list_for_each_entry_safe(), which caches the next ent…

  • High 7.5

    libceph: replace overzealous BUG_ON in osdmap_apply_incremental()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: libceph: replace overzealous BUG_ON in osdmap_apply_incremental() If the osdmap is (maliciously) corrupted such that the incremental osdmap epoch is different from what is expected, there is …

  • High 7.1
    CVE-2026-46243 Public exploit

    smb: client: reject userspace cifs.spnego descriptions

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: reject userspace cifs.spnego descriptions cifs.spnego key descriptions contain authority-bearing fields such as pid, uid, creduid, and upcall_target that cifs.upcall treats as ke…

  • Unscored —

    nbd: defer config unlock in nbd_genl_connect

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nbd: defer config unlock in nbd_genl_connect There is one use-after-free warning when running NBD_CMD_CONNECT and NBD_CLEAR_SOCK: nbd_genl_connect nbd_alloc_and_init_config // config_refs=1 n…

  • Unscored —

    scsi: target: iscsi: Fix use-after-free in iscsit_dec_conn_usage_count()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: target: iscsi: Fix use-after-free in iscsit_dec_conn_usage_count() In iscsit_dec_conn_usage_count(), the function calls complete() while holding the conn->conn_usage_lock. As soon as co…

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