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Medium ELSA-2025-16919 4 CVEs

Moderate: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Sep 29, 2025 · Updated Sep 29, 2025

Summary

[4.18.0-553.77.1_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]

[4.18.0-553.77.1_10]
- net_sched: hfsc: Fix a potential UAF in hfsc_dequeue() too (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-109847] {CVE-2025-37797}
- net_sched: hfsc: Fix a UAF vulnerability in class handling (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-109847] {CVE-2025-37797}
- net: openvswitch: Fix the dead loop of MPLS parse (Aaron Conole) [RHEL-95609]
- sctp: linearize cloned gso packets in sctp_rcv (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-113329] {CVE-2025-38718}
- firmware: arm_scpi: Ensure scpi_info is not assigned if the probe fails (Charles Mirabile) [RHEL-109394] {CVE-2022-50087}
- nfsd: don't ignore the return code of svc_proc_register() (Olga Kornievskaia) [RHEL-111639] {CVE-2025-22026}

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:4.18.0-553.77.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-553.77.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-553.77.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-core 0:4.18.0-553.77.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-cross-headers 0:4.18.0-553.77.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-553.77.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-553.77.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-553.77.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-553.77.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.77.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-553.77.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-553.77.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-headers 0:4.18.0-553.77.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-553.77.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.77.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-553.77.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-553.77.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:4.18.0-553.77.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perf 0:4.18.0-553.77.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-perf 0:4.18.0-553.77.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 4

  • High 7.8

    firmware: arm_scpi: Ensure scpi_info is not assigned if the probe fails

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: arm_scpi: Ensure scpi_info is not assigned if the probe fails When scpi probe fails, at any point, we need to ensure that the scpi_info is not set and will remain NULL until the pro…

  • High 7.8

    net_sched: hfsc: Fix a UAF vulnerability in class handling

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net_sched: hfsc: Fix a UAF vulnerability in class handling This patch fixes a Use-After-Free vulnerability in the HFSC qdisc class handling. The issue occurs due to a time-of-check/time-of-us…

  • High 7.8

    sctp: linearize cloned gso packets in sctp_rcv

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: linearize cloned gso packets in sctp_rcv A cloned head skb still shares these frag skbs in fraglist with the original head skb. It's not safe to access these frag skbs. syzbot reported …

  • Unscored —

    nfsd: don't ignore the return code of svc_proc_register()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: don't ignore the return code of svc_proc_register() Currently, nfsd_proc_stat_init() ignores the return value of svc_proc_register(). If the procfile creation fails, then the kernel wil…