rhsa-2025:12976
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2025-08-05 11:17
Modified
2025-08-05 15:28
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch-5_14_0-570_17_1 security update

Notes

Topic
An update for kpatch-patch-5_14_0-570_17_1 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Details
This is a kernel live patch module which can be loaded by the kpatch command line utility to modify the code of a running kernel. This patch module is targeted for kernel-5.14.0-570.17.1.el9_6. Security Fix(es): * kernel: sunrpc: handle SVC_GARBAGE during svc auth processing as auth error (CVE-2025-38089) 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.
Terms of Use
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          "category": "impact",
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}


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