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Medium ELSA-2025-16372 3 CVEs

Moderate: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Sep 22, 2025 · Updated Sep 22, 2025

Summary

[4.18.0-553.76.1_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]

[4.18.0-553.76.1_10]
- HID: core: Harden s32ton() against conversion to 0 bits (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-111027] {CVE-2025-38556}
- HID: stop exporting hid_snto32() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-111027] {CVE-2025-38556}
- HID: simplify snto32() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-111027] {CVE-2025-38556}
- HID: core: fix shift-out-of-bounds in hid_report_raw_event (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-111027] {CVE-2025-38556}
- use uniform permission checks for all mount propagation changes (Ian Kent) [RHEL-107299] {CVE-2025-38498}
- do_change_type(): refuse to operate on unmounted/not ours mounts (Ian Kent) [RHEL-107299] {CVE-2025-38498}
- xfs: make sure sb_fdblocks is non-negative (Pavel Reichl) [RHEL-104193]
- vsock: Fix transport_* TOCTOU (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-105991] {CVE-2025-38461}

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-core 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-cross-headers 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-headers 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perf 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-perf 0:4.18.0-553.76.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 3

  • High 7.8

    do_change_type(): refuse to operate on unmounted/not ours mounts

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: do_change_type(): refuse to operate on unmounted/not ours mounts Ensure that propagation settings can only be changed for mounts located in the caller's mount namespace. This change aligns pe…

  • High 7.0

    vsock: Fix transport_* TOCTOU

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock: Fix transport_* TOCTOU Transport assignment may race with module unload. Protect new_transport from becoming a stale pointer. This also takes care of an insecure call in vsock_use_loca…

  • Unscored —

    HID: core: Harden s32ton() against conversion to 0 bits

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: core: Harden s32ton() against conversion to 0 bits Testing by the syzbot fuzzer showed that the HID core gets a shift-out-of-bounds exception when it tries to convert a 32-bit quantity t…