RHEL 8 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2025:22387)

high Nessus Plugin ID 277208

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for kernel-rt.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:22387 advisory.

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: nfsd: handle get_client_locked() failure in nfsd4_setclientid_confirm() (CVE-2025-38724)

* kernel: smb: client: fix race with concurrent opens in rename(2) (CVE-2025-39825)

* kernel: mm/memory-failure: fix VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page)) when unpoison memory (CVE-2025-39883)

* kernel: e1000e: fix heap overflow in e1000_set_eeprom (CVE-2025-39898)

* kernel: nbd: fix incomplete validation of ioctl arg (CVE-2023-53513)

* kernel: tcp: Clear tcp_sk(sk)->fastopen_rsk in tcp_disconnect() (CVE-2025-39955)

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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL kernel-rt package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:22387.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2393172

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2395792

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2397553

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2400598

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2400795

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2402699

http://www.nessus.org/u?dd2b32bd

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22387

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 277208

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-22387.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/3/2025

Updated: 12/3/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-39955

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 6.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-kvm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-modules-extra, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-kvm, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-modules

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/1/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/28/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-53513, CVE-2025-38724, CVE-2025-39825, CVE-2025-39883, CVE-2025-39955

CWE: 122, 190, 213, 366, 367, 416

RHSA: 2025:22387