INFSA-2025:18298: kernel-rt security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFSA-2025:18298

Type: security

Release date: 2025-10-31 14:14:20 UTC

Information about package

The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2023-53373

    The flaw is in the seqiv IV generator and can lead to a use-after-free when backlogged crypto requests return -EBUSY. Triggering it is easier locally by flooding the kernel crypto API (e.g. via AF_ALG or many concurrent AEAD requests) because the attacker must create backlog conditions. Remote triggering is much harder and only realistic for specific configurations (for example an in-kernel IPsec/TLS path that uses seqiv for AEAD). In practice this means an unprivileged local user with access to the kernel crypto interface is the most likely threat vector, while a remote attacker would need the target to both use seqiv and be inducible into heavy crypto backlog.

  • CVE-2025-39757

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: Validate UAC3 cluster segment descriptors.

  • CVE-2025-39751

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: hda/ca0132: Fix buffer overflow in add_tuning_control.

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
no information 7.1 no information
no information 7.0 no information
no information 7.1 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

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