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High RLSA-2025:8056 3 CVEs

Important: kernel security update

Published Jul 29, 2025 · Updated Jul 29, 2025

Summary

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: net/mlx5: Always stop health timer during driver removal (CVE-2024-40906)

* kernel: net/mlx5e: SHAMPO, Fix invalid WQ linked list unlink (CVE-2024-44970)

* kernel: vsock: Keep the binding until socket destruction (CVE-2025-21756)

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 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 3

  • Critical 9.8

    net/mlx5e: SHAMPO, Fix invalid WQ linked list unlink

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: SHAMPO, Fix invalid WQ linked list unlink When all the strides in a WQE have been consumed, the WQE is unlinked from the WQ linked list (mlx5_wq_ll_pop()). For SHAMPO, it is possib…

  • High 7.8
    CVE-2025-21756 Public exploit

    vsock: Keep the binding until socket destruction

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock: Keep the binding until socket destruction Preserve sockets bindings; this includes both resulting from an explicit bind() and those implicitly bound through autobind during connect(). …

  • Unscored —

    net/mlx5: Always stop health timer during driver removal

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Always stop health timer during driver removal Currently, if teardown_hca fails to execute during driver removal, mlx5 does not stop the health timer. Afterwards, mlx5 continue with…

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297490
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2309801
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2348609