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Medium ELSA-2025-19931 3 CVEs

Moderate: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Nov 10, 2025 · Updated Nov 10, 2025

Summary

[4.18.0-553.83.1]
- 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]

[4.18.0-553.83.1]
- fs: fix UAF/GPF bug in nilfs_mdt_destroy (Abhi Das) [RHEL-116658] {CVE-2022-50367}
- redhat/configs: Enable CONFIG_MITIGATION_VMSCAPE for x86_64 (Waiman Long) [RHEL-114285]
- x86/vmscape: Add old Intel CPUs to affected list (Waiman Long) [RHEL-114285] {CVE-2025-40300}
- x86/vmscape: Warn when STIBP is disabled with SMT (Waiman Long) [RHEL-114285] {CVE-2025-40300}
- x86/bugs: Move cpu_bugs_smt_update() down (Waiman Long) [RHEL-114285] {CVE-2025-40300}
- x86/vmscape: Enable the mitigation (Waiman Long) [RHEL-114285] {CVE-2025-40300}
- x86/vmscape: Add conditional IBPB mitigation (Waiman Long) [RHEL-114285] {CVE-2025-40300}
- x86/vmscape: Enumerate VMSCAPE bug (Waiman Long) [RHEL-114285] {CVE-2025-40300}
- Documentation/hw-vuln: Add VMSCAPE documentation (Waiman Long) [RHEL-114285] {CVE-2025-40300}
- i40e: fix Jumbo Frame support after iPXE boot (Mohammad Heib) [RHEL-121781]
- i40e: Report MFS in decimal base instead of hex (Mohammad Heib) [RHEL-121781]
- i40e: Fix unexpected MFS warning message (Mohammad Heib) [RHEL-121781]
- bitfield: Add FIELD_MODIFY() helper (Mohammad Heib) [RHEL-121781]
- bitops: Add non-atomic bitops for pointers (Mohammad Heib) [RHEL-121781]
- qed/qede: Fix scheduling while atomic (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-9757]
- fanotify: add watchdog for permission events (Miklos Szeredi) [RHEL-123215]
- jiffies: Cast to unsigned long in secs_to_jiffies() conversion (Miklos Szeredi) [RHEL-123215]
- jiffies: Define secs_to_jiffies() (Miklos Szeredi) [RHEL-123215]
- s390/pci: Fix __pcilg_mio_inuser() inline assembly (Mete Durlu) [RHEL-105611]
- mm: zswap: fix missing folio cleanup in writeback race path (Aristeu Rozanski) [RHEL-116239] {CVE-2023-53178}
- mm: fix zswap writeback race condition (Aristeu Rozanski) [RHEL-116239] {CVE-2023-53178}

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:4.18.0-553.83.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-553.83.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-553.83.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-core 0:4.18.0-553.83.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-cross-headers 0:4.18.0-553.83.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-553.83.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-553.83.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-553.83.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-553.83.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.83.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-553.83.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-553.83.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-headers 0:4.18.0-553.83.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-553.83.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.83.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-553.83.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-553.83.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:4.18.0-553.83.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perf 0:4.18.0-553.83.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-perf 0:4.18.0-553.83.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 3

  • High 7.8

    fs: fix UAF/GPF bug in nilfs_mdt_destroy

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: fix UAF/GPF bug in nilfs_mdt_destroy In alloc_inode, inode_init_always() could return -ENOMEM if security_inode_alloc() fails, which causes inode->i_private uninitialized. Then nilfs_is_m…

  • High 7.8

    mm: fix zswap writeback race condition

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: fix zswap writeback race condition The zswap writeback mechanism can cause a race condition resulting in memory corruption, where a swapped out page gets swapped in with data that was wri…

  • Unscored —

    x86/vmscape: Add conditional IBPB mitigation

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/vmscape: Add conditional IBPB mitigation VMSCAPE is a vulnerability that exploits insufficient branch predictor isolation between a guest and a userspace hypervisor (like QEMU). Existing …