Release kernel-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv ALSA-2026:72059
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 15/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Active
- Tech stack
- linux
- Domain
- operating-systems, release, security
Research direction
This is a kernel security-release notice covering CVE-2025-39964, CVE-2026-53266, and CVE-2026-74581, with affected packages listed in the issue. Start by reviewing the CVE details and the NVIDIA for AlmaLinux 10 Release Notes referenced by the report. No contribution scope or completion criteria are specified, so the intended work must be clarified first.
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Description
kernel security update
Severity: Critical
Description
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fix(es):
- kernel: crypto: af_alg - Disallow concurrent writes in af_alg_sendmsg (CVE-2025-39964)
- kernel: netfilter: ebtables SNAT target writes to shared memory pages during ARP hardware address rewrite (CVE-2026-53266)
- kernel: net: ipv6: use-after-free in fib6_rule_suppress due to stale res->rt6 pointer (CVE-2026-74581)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the NVIDIA for AlmaLinux 10 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Affected packages:
kernel-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-64k-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-64k-core-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-64k-debug-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-64k-debug-core-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-64k-debug-devel-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-64k-debug-modules-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-64k-debug-modules-core-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-64k-debug-modules-extra-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-64k-devel-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-64k-devel-matched-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-64k-modules-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-64k-modules-core-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-64k-modules-extra-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-abi-stablelists-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.noarch
kernel-core-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-cross-headers-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-debug-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-debug-core-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-debug-devel-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-debug-devel-matched-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-debug-modules-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-debug-modules-core-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-debug-modules-extra-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-devel-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-devel-matched-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-doc-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.noarch
kernel-headers-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-modules-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-modules-core-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-modules-extra-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-modules-extra-matched-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-tools-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-tools-libs-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-tools-libs-devel-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-uki-virt-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-uki-virt-addons-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
libperf-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
perf-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
python3-perf-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
rtla-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
rv-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.aarch64
kernel-abi-stablelists-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.noarch
kernel-doc-6.12.0-231.20.el10nv.noarch
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