RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2026:77216)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 363766

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:77216 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: ALSA: firewire-motu: fix buffer overflow in hwdep read for DSP events (CVE-2025-68347)

* kernel: xfrm: hold dev ref until after transport_finish NF_HOOK (CVE-2026-31663)

* kernel: udf: fix partition descriptor append bookkeeping (CVE-2026-45991)

* kernel: RDMA/rxe: Validate pad and ICRC before payload_size() in rxe_rcv (CVE-2026-46043)

* kernel: RDMA/rxe: Reject unknown opcodes before ICRC processing (CVE-2026-46133)

* kernel: ipc: limit next_id allocation to the valid ID range (CVE-2026-52923)

* kernel: sctp: purge outqueue on stale COOKIE-ECHO handling (CVE-2026-52924)

* kernel: dm cache policy smq: fix missing locks in invalidating cache blocks (CVE-2026-53062)

* kernel: xfrm: policy: fix use-after-free on inexact bin in xfrm_policy_bysel_ctx() (CVE-2026-53239)

* kernel: netfilter: synproxy: refresh tcphdr after skb_ensure_writable (CVE-2026-64007)

* kernel: ip6: vti: Use ip6_tnl.net in vti6_siocdevprivate() (CVE-2026-63921)

* kernel: xfrm: input: hold netns during deferred transport reinjection (CVE-2026-63919)

* kernel: ip6: vti: Use ip6_tnl.net in vti6_changelink() (CVE-2026-63917)

* kernel: nvmet: fix pre-auth out-of-bounds heap read in Discovery Get Log Page (CVE-2026-64320)

* kernel: AMD-SN-7061: Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability (CVE-2026-68480)

* kernel: RDMA/rxe: Fix a use-after-free problem in rxe_mmap (CVE-2026-64582)

* kernel: net: qrtr: restrict socket creation to the initial network namespace (CVE-2026-68294)

* kernel: xfrm: fix stale skb->prev after async crypto steals a GSO segment (CVE-2026-68426)

* kernel: scsi: libiscsi_tcp: Bound SCSI Response data segment to the connection buffer (CVE-2026-74556)

* kernel: netfilter: flowtable: publish GC-visible tuple last (CVE-2026-74746)

* kernel: RDMA/rxe: Fix responder UAF on IB_QP_MAX_DEST_RD_ATOMIC modify_qp (CVE-2026-80864)

* kernel: RDMA/rxe: Fix OOB in free_rd_atomic_resources() (CVE-2026-80863)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

* NFS client hangs while returning delegations (JIRA:RHEL-112278)

* scsi: mpt3sas: avoid freeing unallocated PCIe SGL buffers (JIRA:RHEL-256998)

* xfs corruption from [xfs_trans_cancel] during inode allocation (JIRA:RHEL-257186)

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 affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:77216

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2424879

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2461462

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482113

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482127

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482550

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492094

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492095

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492278

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492779

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2502361

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2502368

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2502412

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2502434

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2507061

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2508363

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511448

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2513353

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2513477

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2517010

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2524483

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2528646

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2528665

http://www.nessus.org/u?775d4dcf

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 363766

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-77216.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/7/2026

Updated: 10/7/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.34

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-74746

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-perf

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: 10/7/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/24/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-68347, CVE-2026-31663, CVE-2026-45991, CVE-2026-46043, CVE-2026-46133, CVE-2026-52923, CVE-2026-52924, CVE-2026-53062, CVE-2026-53239, CVE-2026-63917, CVE-2026-63919, CVE-2026-63921, CVE-2026-64007, CVE-2026-64320, CVE-2026-64582, CVE-2026-68294, CVE-2026-68426, CVE-2026-68480, CVE-2026-74556, CVE-2026-74746, CVE-2026-80863, CVE-2026-80864

CWE: 120, 125, 191, 201, 364, 414, 653, 787, 825, 826, 911

RHSA: 2026:77216