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Medium ELSA-2025-11298 8 CVEs

Moderate: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Jul 16, 2025 · Updated Jul 16, 2025

Summary

- [4.18.0-553.62.1_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]
- Add new Oracle Linux Driver Signing (key 1) certificate [Orabug: 37985772]

[4.18.0-553.62.1_10]
- s390/virtio_ccw: Don't allocate/assign airqs for non-existing queues (David Hildenbrand) [RHEL-87557]
- mm/slab: make __free(kfree) accept error pointers (Mark Langsdorf) [RHEL-84410]
- driver core: fix potential NULL pointer dereference in dev_uevent() (Mark Langsdorf) [RHEL-84410]
- driver core: introduce device_set_driver() helper (Mark Langsdorf) [RHEL-84410]
- Revert 'drivers: core: synchronize really_probe() and dev_uevent()' (Mark Langsdorf) [RHEL-84410]
- cleanup: Add conditional guard helper (Mark Langsdorf) [RHEL-84410]
- cleanup: Adjust scoped_guard() macros to avoid potential warning (Mark Langsdorf) [RHEL-84410]
- cleanup: Remove address space of returned pointer (Mark Langsdorf) [RHEL-84410]
- cleanup: Add usage and style documentation (Mark Langsdorf) [RHEL-84410]
- file: add take_fd() cleanup helper (Mark Langsdorf) [RHEL-84410]
- cleanup: Standardize the header guard define's name (Mark Langsdorf) [RHEL-84410]
- cleanup: Add conditional guard support (Mark Langsdorf) [RHEL-84410]
- cleanup: Make no_free_ptr() __must_check (Mark Langsdorf) [RHEL-84410]
- locking: Introduce __cleanup() based infrastructure (Mark Langsdorf) [RHEL-84410]
- misc/vmw_vmci: fix an infoleak in vmci_host_do_receive_datagram() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-100343] {CVE-2022-49788}
- media: uvcvideo: Announce the user our deprecation intentions (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-98760]
- media: uvcvideo: Allow changing noparam on the fly (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-98760]
- media: uvcvideo: Invert default value for nodrop module param (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-98760]
- media: uvcvideo: Propagate buf->error to userspace (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-98760]
- media: uvcvideo: Flush the control cache when we get an event (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-98760]
- media: uvcvideo: Annotate lock requirements for uvc_ctrl_set (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-98760]
- media: uvcvideo: Remove dangling pointers (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-98760] {CVE-2024-58002}
- media: uvcvideo: Remove redundant NULL assignment (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-98760]
- media: uvcvideo: Only save async fh if success (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-98760]
- media: uvcvideo: Refactor iterators (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-98760]
- media: uvcvideo: Fix double free in error path (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-98788] {CVE-2024-57980}
- cifs: potential buffer overflow in handling symlinks (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-97074] {CVE-2022-49058}
- Race between reading mdstat and stopping an md device (Nigel Croxon) [RHEL-95723]
- fs/dcache: Control # of dentries in list_lru_node (Waiman Long) [RHEL-8578]
- fs/dcache: Add sysctl parameter dentry-fs-klimit to control # of dentries in filesystem (Waiman Long) [RHEL-8578]
- mm/list_lru: Make list_lru_add() return # if items in affected list_lru_node (Waiman Long) [RHEL-8578]

[4.18.0-553.61.1_10]
- s390: Add z17 elf platform (Christoph Schlameuss) [RHEL-100409]
- ext4: ignore xattrs past end (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-100375] {CVE-2025-37738}
- ext4: fix off-by-one error in do_split (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-100361] {CVE-2025-23150}
- net: atm: fix use after free in lec_send() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-93119] {CVE-2025-22004}
- x86/microcode/AMD: Fix out-of-bounds on systems with CPU-less NUMA nodes (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-98980] {CVE-2025-21991}

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:4.18.0-553.62.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-553.62.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-553.62.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-core 0:4.18.0-553.62.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-cross-headers 0:4.18.0-553.62.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-553.62.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-553.62.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-553.62.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-553.62.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.62.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-553.62.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-553.62.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-headers 0:4.18.0-553.62.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-553.62.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.62.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-553.62.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-553.62.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:4.18.0-553.62.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perf 0:4.18.0-553.62.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-perf 0:4.18.0-553.62.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 8

  • Critical 9.1

    cifs: potential buffer overflow in handling symlinks

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: potential buffer overflow in handling symlinks Smatch printed a warning: arch/x86/crypto/poly1305_glue.c:198 poly1305_update_arch() error: __memcpy() 'dctx->buf' too small (16 vs u32max…

  • High 8.6

    net: atm: fix use after free in lec_send()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: atm: fix use after free in lec_send() The ->send() operation frees skb so save the length before calling ->send() to avoid a use after free.

  • High 7.8

    media: uvcvideo: Remove dangling pointers

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: uvcvideo: Remove dangling pointers When an async control is written, we copy a pointer to the file handle that started the operation. That pointer will be used when the device is done.…

  • High 7.8

    x86/microcode/AMD: Fix out-of-bounds on systems with CPU-less NUMA nodes

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/microcode/AMD: Fix out-of-bounds on systems with CPU-less NUMA nodes Currently, load_microcode_amd() iterates over all NUMA nodes, retrieves their CPU masks and unconditionally accesses p…

  • High 7.8

    ext4: fix off-by-one error in do_split

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix off-by-one error in do_split Syzkaller detected a use-after-free issue in ext4_insert_dentry that was caused by out-of-bounds access due to incorrect splitting in do_split. BUG: KAS…

  • High 7.8

    ext4: ignore xattrs past end

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: ignore xattrs past end Once inside 'ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all' we should ignore xattrs entries past the 'end' entry. This fixes the following KASAN reported issue: ==================…

  • Unscored —

    misc/vmw_vmci: fix an infoleak in vmci_host_do_receive_datagram()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc/vmw_vmci: fix an infoleak in vmci_host_do_receive_datagram() `struct vmci_event_qp` allocated by qp_notify_peer() contains padding, which may carry uninitialized data to the userspace, a…

  • Unscored —

    media: uvcvideo: Fix double free in error path

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: uvcvideo: Fix double free in error path If the uvc_status_init() function fails to allocate the int_urb, it will free the dev->status pointer but doesn't reset the pointer to NULL. Thi…