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Critical RHSA-2026:69906 6 CVEs

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Published Sep 22, 2026 · Updated Oct 14, 2026

Fixed packages 57

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Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos bpftool 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos bpftool-debuginfo 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos kernel 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos kernel-core 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos kernel-debug-debuginfo 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos kernel-debuginfo 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos perf 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos perf-debuginfo 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos python3-perf 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos python3-perf-debuginfo 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos bpftool 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos bpftool-debuginfo 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-core 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-debug-debuginfo 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-debuginfo 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-debuginfo-common-s390x 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-zfcpdump 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-zfcpdump-core 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-zfcpdump-debuginfo 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-zfcpdump-devel 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-zfcpdump-modules 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos perf 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos perf-debuginfo 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos python3-perf 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos python3-perf-debuginfo 0:4.18.0-372.216.1.el8_6

Vulnerabilities 6

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2026-52993 Public exploit

    tipc: fix double-free in tipc_buf_append()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: fix double-free in tipc_buf_append() tipc_msg_validate() can potentially reallocate the skb it is validating, freeing the old one. In tipc_buf_append(), it was being called with a point…

  • Critical 9.8

    netfilter: conntrack: remove sprintf usage

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: conntrack: remove sprintf usage Replace it with scnprintf, the buffer sizes are expected to be large enough to hold the result, no need for snprintf+overflow check. Increase buffer…

  • Critical 9.8

    RDMA/siw: bound Read Response placement to the RREAD length

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/siw: bound Read Response placement to the RREAD length In drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_rx.c, siw_proc_rresp() places each inbound Read Response DDP segment at sge->laddr + wqe->proce…

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2026-64564 Public exploit

    sctp: don't free the ASCONF's own transport in DEL-IP processing

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: don't free the ASCONF's own transport in DEL-IP processing sctp_process_asconf() caches the transport the ASCONF chunk is processed against in asconf->transport (== chunk->transport, se…

  • High 7.8

    smc: Fix use-after-free in tcp_write_timer_handler().

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smc: Fix use-after-free in tcp_write_timer_handler(). With Eric's ref tracker, syzbot finally found a repro for use-after-free in tcp_write_timer_handler() by kernel TCP sockets. [0] If SMC c…

  • High 7.1

    fanotify: fix false positive on permission events

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fanotify: fix false positive on permission events fsnotify_get_mark_safe() may return false for a mark on an unrelated group, which results in bypassing the permission check. Fix by skipping …

References

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    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2420279
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482612
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492329
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492437
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2507089
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2510890
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    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_69906.json
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    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-53781
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    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53781
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    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53781
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    https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025120939-CVE-2023-53781-cb1d@gregkh/T
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    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-46150
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    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46150
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    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46150
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    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-52993
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-52993
  • article
    https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026062445-CVE-2026-52993-34a2@gregkh/T
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-53002
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53002
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53002
  • article
    https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026062447-CVE-2026-53002-8577@gregkh/T
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    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-64268
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  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-64268
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    https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026072559-CVE-2026-64268-629a@gregkh/T
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    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-64564
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    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64564
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-64564
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    https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026080404-CVE-2026-64564-6762@gregkh/T