Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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...

CVE-2026-31787

CVE-2026-31787 affects the Linux kernel, specifically the xen/privcmd mapping flow. The root cause is a double-free in the VMA splitting path when userspace performs partial munmap() on a privcmd mapping. Because privcmd_vm_ops defines .close but not .may_split or .open, the kernel may_split() pe...

CVE-2024-46762

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xen: privcmd: Fix possible access to a freed kirqfd instance Nothing prevents simultaneous ioctl calls to privcmdirqfdassign and privcmdirqfddeassign. If that happens, it is possible that a kirqfd created and added to the...