Red Hat Kernel Updates Fix USB Driver, Networking, and Locking Flaws
Patch & Detection Intelligence · 8 sources · Updated 3mo ago · First seen Oct 1, 2025
Red Hat issued kernel security updates for RHEL 7 Extended Lifecycle Support, RHEL 8, RHEL 9, and RHEL for Real Time 7, remediating vulnerabilities in USB, networking, storage, and scheduler components. The updates address CVE-2022-50229, a use-after-free in the ALSA BCD2000 driver's probe-error path; CVE-2023-53125, which could expose kernel memory through an oversized packet length in the SMSC75xx USB Ethernet driver; and CVE-2025-38392, an invalid locking-context flaw in the idpf network driver when MAC-filter capability is enabled.
The RHEL 7 advisories also cover issues in USB audio, RAID10, Intel i40e networking, and the QFQ scheduler, while the RHEL 9 update includes fixes for the DWC3 USB gadget driver, mount type changes, and the s390 SCLP subsystem. RHEL 8 customers should install kernel version 4.18.0-553.75.1.el8_10; RHEL for Real Time 7 customers should install 3.10.0-1160.140.1.rt56.1292.el7. Administrators should deploy the applicable updated kernel packages across supported architectures and reboot systems to activate the fixes.
