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Medium ELSA-2025-17797 2 CVEs

Moderate: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Oct 13, 2025 · Updated Oct 13, 2025

Summary

[4.18.0-553.79.1_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]

[4.18.0-553.79.1_10]
- Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-116277] {CVE-2023-53305}
- KVM: SVM: Don't BUG if userspace injects an interrupt with GIF=0 (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-109748] {CVE-2022-50228}

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:4.18.0-553.79.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-553.79.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-553.79.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-core 0:4.18.0-553.79.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-cross-headers 0:4.18.0-553.79.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-553.79.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-553.79.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-553.79.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-553.79.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.79.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-553.79.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-553.79.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-headers 0:4.18.0-553.79.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-553.79.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.79.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-553.79.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-553.79.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:4.18.0-553.79.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perf 0:4.18.0-553.79.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-perf 0:4.18.0-553.79.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 2

  • High 8.8

    Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free Fix potential use-after-free in l2cap_le_command_rej.

  • Unscored —

    KVM: SVM: Don't BUG if userspace injects an interrupt with GIF=0

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM: Don't BUG if userspace injects an interrupt with GIF=0 Don't BUG/WARN on interrupt injection due to GIF being cleared, since it's trivial for userspace to force the situation via KV…