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High ELSA-2025-20559 1 CVE

Important: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Sep 9, 2025 · Updated Sep 9, 2025

Summary

[5.15.0-312.187.5.1]
- x86/vmscape: Warn when STIBP is disabled with SMT (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 38343660]
- x86/bugs: Move cpu_bugs_smt_update() down (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 38343660]
- x86/vmscape: Enable the mitigation (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 38343660]
- x86/vmscape: Add conditional IBPB mitigation (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 38343660]
- x86/bugs: Fix RSB clearing in indirect_branch_prediction_barrier() (Josh Poimboeuf) [Orabug: 38343660]
- x86/vmscape: Add old Intel CPUs to affected list (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 38343660]
- x86/vmscape: Enumerate VMSCAPE bug (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 38343660]
- Documentation/hw-vuln: Add VMSCAPE documentation (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 38343660]

Fixed packages 19

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:5.15.0-312.187.5.1.el9uek
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-uek 0:5.15.0-312.187.5.1.el9uek
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-uek-container 0:5.15.0-312.187.5.1.el9uek
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-uek-container-debug 0:5.15.0-312.187.5.1.el9uek
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-uek-core 0:5.15.0-312.187.5.1.el9uek
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-uek-debug 0:5.15.0-312.187.5.1.el9uek
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-uek-debug-core 0:5.15.0-312.187.5.1.el9uek
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-uek-debug-devel 0:5.15.0-312.187.5.1.el9uek
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-uek-debug-modules 0:5.15.0-312.187.5.1.el9uek
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-uek-debug-modules-extra 0:5.15.0-312.187.5.1.el9uek
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-uek-devel 0:5.15.0-312.187.5.1.el9uek
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-uek-doc 0:5.15.0-312.187.5.1.el9uek
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-uek-modules 0:5.15.0-312.187.5.1.el9uek
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-uek-modules-extra 0:5.15.0-312.187.5.1.el9uek
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-uek64k 0:5.15.0-312.187.5.1.el9uek
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-uek64k-core 0:5.15.0-312.187.5.1.el9uek
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-uek64k-devel 0:5.15.0-312.187.5.1.el9uek
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-uek64k-modules 0:5.15.0-312.187.5.1.el9uek
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-uek64k-modules-extra 0:5.15.0-312.187.5.1.el9uek

Vulnerabilities 1

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    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 …