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Medium ELSA-2025-1068 2 CVEs

Moderate: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Feb 6, 2025 · Updated Feb 6, 2025

Summary

[4.18.0-553.37.1_10.OL8]
- Update Oracle Linux certificates (Kevin Lyons)
- Disable signing for aarch64 (Ilya Okomin)
- Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was added to the kernel trusted keys list (olkmod_signing_key.pem) [Orabug: 29539237]
- Update x509.genkey [Orabug: 24817676]
- Conflict with shim-ia32 and shim-x64 <= 15.3-1.0.3
- Remove upstream reference during boot (Kevin Lyons) [Orabug: 34750652]

[4.18.0-553.37.1_10]
- arm64/sve: Discard stale CPU state when handling SVE traps (Mark Salter) [RHEL-71535] {CVE-2024-50275}
- scsi: core: Handle devices which return an unusually large VPD page count (Ewan D. Milne) [RHEL-34275]
- scsi: core: Fix unremoved procfs host directory regression (Ewan D. Milne) [RHEL-34275]
- scsi: core: Consult supported VPD page list prior to fetching page (Ewan D. Milne) [RHEL-34275]
- NFSv4: Fix dropped lock for racing OPEN and delegation return (Benjamin Coddington) [RHEL-73889]

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:4.18.0-553.37.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-553.37.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-553.37.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-core 0:4.18.0-553.37.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-cross-headers 0:4.18.0-553.37.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-553.37.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-553.37.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-553.37.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-553.37.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.37.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-553.37.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-553.37.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-headers 0:4.18.0-553.37.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-553.37.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.37.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-553.37.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-553.37.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:4.18.0-553.37.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perf 0:4.18.0-553.37.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-perf 0:4.18.0-553.37.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 2

  • High 7.3

    arm64/sve: Discard stale CPU state when handling SVE traps

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64/sve: Discard stale CPU state when handling SVE traps The logic for handling SVE traps manipulates saved FPSIMD/SVE state incorrectly, and a race with preemption can result in a task hav…

  • Unscored —

    scsi: core: Fix unremoved procfs host directory regression

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: core: Fix unremoved procfs host directory regression Commit fc663711b944 ("scsi: core: Remove the /proc/scsi/${proc_name} directory earlier") fixed a bug related to modules loading/unlo…