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Medium ELSA-2025-11455 2 CVEs

Moderate: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Jul 21, 2025 · Updated Jul 21, 2025

Summary

- [4.18.0-553.63.1_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]

[4.18.0-553.63.1_10]
- tcp/dccp: Don't use timer_pending() in reqsk_queue_unlink(). (Guillaume Nault) [RHEL-66324] {CVE-2024-50154}
- net: ch9200: fix uninitialised access during mii_nway_restart (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-101200] {CVE-2025-38086}
- mm/swapfile: add cond_resched() in get_swap_pages() (Nico Pache) [RHEL-80401] {CVE-2023-52932}
- dlm: fix possible lkb_resource null dereference (Alexander Aring) [RHEL-64452]
- fs: dlm: handle -EINVAL as log_error() (Alexander Aring) [RHEL-64452]
- redhat/configs: enable CONFIG_RH_KABI_STABLE_ASM_OFFSETS (Cestmir Kalina) [RHEL-90099]
- kabi: freeze stablelist and stackprotector-related constants (Cestmir Kalina) [RHEL-90099]
- kabi: add redhat/kabi/asm-offsets (Cestmir Kalina) [RHEL-90099]
- kabi: add RH_KABI_ASSERT_EQ_CONST{,EXPR} (Cestmir Kalina) [RHEL-90099]

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:4.18.0-553.63.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-553.63.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-553.63.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-core 0:4.18.0-553.63.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-cross-headers 0:4.18.0-553.63.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-553.63.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-553.63.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-553.63.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-553.63.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.63.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-553.63.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-553.63.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-headers 0:4.18.0-553.63.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-553.63.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.63.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-553.63.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-553.63.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:4.18.0-553.63.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perf 0:4.18.0-553.63.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-perf 0:4.18.0-553.63.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Critical 9.8

    tcp/dccp: Don't use timer_pending() in reqsk_queue_unlink().

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tcp/dccp: Don't use timer_pending() in reqsk_queue_unlink(). Martin KaFai Lau reported use-after-free [0] in reqsk_timer_handler(). """ We are seeing a use-after-free from a bpf prog attached…

  • Unscored —

    net: ch9200: fix uninitialised access during mii_nway_restart

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ch9200: fix uninitialised access during mii_nway_restart In mii_nway_restart() the code attempts to call mii->mdio_read which is ch9200_mdio_read(). ch9200_mdio_read() utilises a local b…