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RHEL 9 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2025:2476)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 232786

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:2476 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: HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer (CVE-2024-50302)

 * kernel: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential out-of-bound accesses for Extigy and Mbox devices (CVE-2024-53197)

 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-2025:2476.

See Also

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2476

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2327169

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2334412

http://www.nessus.org/u?113b7513

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 232786

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-2476.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/15/2025

Updated: 3/15/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-50302

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/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, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-kvm, 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, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-modules-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-kvm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-modules-core, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/10/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/19/2024

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 3/25/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-50302, CVE-2024-53197

CWE: 120, 908

RHSA: 2025:2476