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Medium ELSA-2025-11850 3 CVEs

Moderate: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Jul 28, 2025 · Updated Jul 28, 2025

Summary

[4.18.0-553.64.1_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]

[4.18.0-553.64.1_10]
- sched/fair: Fix potential memory corruption in child_cfs_rq_on_list (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-100387] {CVE-2025-21919}
- NFSv4/pNFS: Fix a race to wake on NFS_LAYOUT_DRAIN (Benjamin Coddington) [RHEL-86256]
- ftrace: Fix NULL pointer dereference in is_ftrace_trampoline when ftrace is dead (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-102133] {CVE-2022-49977}
- wifi: iwlwifi: limit printed string from FW file (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-99367] {CVE-2025-21905}
- workqueue: Disable printk_deferred_{enter,exit} in RT kernel (Waiman Long) [RHEL-80292]
- workqueue: Make show_pwq() use run-length encoding (Waiman Long) [RHEL-80292]
- workqueue: Introduce show_one_worker_pool and show_one_workqueue. (Waiman Long) [RHEL-80292]
- workqueue: fix state-dump console deadlock (Waiman Long) [RHEL-80292]

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:4.18.0-553.64.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-553.64.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-553.64.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-core 0:4.18.0-553.64.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-cross-headers 0:4.18.0-553.64.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-553.64.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-553.64.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-553.64.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-553.64.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.64.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-553.64.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-553.64.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-headers 0:4.18.0-553.64.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-553.64.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.64.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-553.64.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-553.64.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:4.18.0-553.64.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perf 0:4.18.0-553.64.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-perf 0:4.18.0-553.64.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 3

  • High 7.8

    ftrace: Fix NULL pointer dereference in is_ftrace_trampoline when ftrace is dead

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ftrace: Fix NULL pointer dereference in is_ftrace_trampoline when ftrace is dead ftrace_startup does not remove ops from ftrace_ops_list when ftrace_startup_enable fails: register_ftrace_func…

  • High 7.8

    sched/fair: Fix potential memory corruption in child_cfs_rq_on_list

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched/fair: Fix potential memory corruption in child_cfs_rq_on_list child_cfs_rq_on_list attempts to convert a 'prev' pointer to a cfs_rq. This 'prev' pointer can originate from struct rq's l…

  • High 7.1

    wifi: iwlwifi: limit printed string from FW file

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: limit printed string from FW file There's no guarantee here that the file is always with a NUL-termination, so reading the string may read beyond the end of the TLV. If that's …