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Medium ELSA-2025-15008 4 CVEs

Moderate: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Sep 3, 2025 · Updated Sep 3, 2025

Summary

[4.18.0-553.72.1_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]

[4.18.0-553.72.1_10]
- scsi: lpfc: Use memcpy() for BIOS version (Ewan D. Milne) [RHEL-105927] {CVE-2025-38332}
- watchdog/perf: properly initialize the turbo mode timestamp and rearm counter (David Arcari) [RHEL-103371]
- RDMA/iwcm: Fix use-after-free of work objects after cm_id destruction (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-104260] {CVE-2025-38211}
- RDMA/iwcm: Fix WARNING:at_kernel/workqueue.c:#check_flush_dependency (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-104260] {CVE-2024-47696}
- RDMA/iwcm: Fix a use-after-free related to destroying CM IDs (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-104260] {CVE-2024-42285}
- net/sched: sch_qfq: Avoid triggering might_sleep in atomic context in qfq_delete_class (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-106312] {CVE-2025-38477}
- net/sched: sch_qfq: Fix race condition on qfq_aggregate (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-106312] {CVE-2025-38477}
- cxgb4: use port number to set mac addr (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-75976]
- net/sched: Abort __tc_modify_qdisc if parent class does not exist (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-107894]
- aacraid: fix a buffer overflow (Tomas Henzl) [RHEL-62313]
- filemap: remove use of wait bookmarks (Brian Foster) [RHEL-107181]
- x86/efistub: Omit physical KASLR when memory reservations exist (Ricardo Robaina) [RHEL-82369]
- efi/libstub: Check return value of efi_parse_options (Ricardo Robaina) [RHEL-82369]
- efi/x86: Support builtin command line (Ricardo Robaina) [RHEL-82369]
- tipc: Fix use-after-free in tipc_conn_close(). (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-106635] {CVE-2025-38464}
- sbitmap: remove stale comment in sbq_calc_wake_batch (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- block: Fix lockdep warning in blk_mq_mark_tag_wait (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- blk-mq: fix potential io hang by wrong 'wake_batch' (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- lib/sbitmap: define swap_lock as raw_spinlock_t (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: fix io hung due to race on sbitmap_word::cleared (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: use READ_ONCE to access map->word (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: fix batching wakeup (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: correct wake_batch recalculation to avoid potential IO hung (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: add sbitmap_find_bit to remove repeat code in __sbitmap_get/__sbitmap_get_shallow (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: rewrite sbitmap_find_bit_in_index to reduce repeat code (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: remove redundant check in __sbitmap_queue_get_batch (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: remove unnecessary calculation of alloc_hint in __sbitmap_get_shallow (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: Use atomic_long_try_cmpxchg in __sbitmap_queue_get_batch (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: remove unnecessary code in __sbitmap_queue_get_batch (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- lib/sbitmap: Fix invalid loop in __sbitmap_queue_get_batch() (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- lib/sbitmap: kill 'depth' from sbitmap_word (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: add __sbitmap_queue_get_batch() (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: Try each queue to wake up at least one waiter (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- wait: Return number of exclusive waiters awaken (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sched/wait: Deduplicate code with do-while (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: Advance the queue index before waking up a queue (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: Use single per-bitmap counting to wake up queued tags (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- blk-mq: Fix wrong wakeup batch configuration which will cause hang (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- blk-mq: fix tag_get wait task can't be awakened (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-core 0:4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-cross-headers 0:4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-headers 0:4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perf 0:4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-perf 0:4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 4

  • Critical 9.8

    RDMA/iwcm: Fix use-after-free of work objects after cm_id destruction

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/iwcm: Fix use-after-free of work objects after cm_id destruction The commit 59c68ac31e15 ("iw_cm: free cm_id resources on the last deref") simplified cm_id resource management by freeing…

  • High 7.8

    tipc: Fix use-after-free in tipc_conn_close().

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: Fix use-after-free in tipc_conn_close(). syzbot reported a null-ptr-deref in tipc_conn_close() during netns dismantle. [0] tipc_topsrv_stop() iterates tipc_net(net)->topsrv->conn_idr an…

  • High 7.8

    net/sched: sch_qfq: Fix race condition on qfq_aggregate

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: sch_qfq: Fix race condition on qfq_aggregate A race condition can occur when 'agg' is modified in qfq_change_agg (called during qfq_enqueue) while other threads access it concurren…

  • Unscored —

    scsi: lpfc: Use memcpy() for BIOS version

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: lpfc: Use memcpy() for BIOS version The strlcat() with FORTIFY support is triggering a panic because it thinks the target buffer will overflow although the correct target buffer size is…