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Medium ELSA-2025-22388 6 CVEs

Moderate: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Dec 1, 2025 · Updated Dec 1, 2025

Summary

[4.18.0-553.87.1]
- 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]

[4.18.0-553.87.1]
- tcp: Don't call reqsk_fastopen_remove() in tcp_conn_request(). (Antoine Tenart) [RHEL-120664]
- tcp: Clear tcp_sk(sk)->fastopen_rsk in tcp_disconnect(). (Antoine Tenart) [RHEL-120664] {CVE-2025-39955}
- mm/memory-failure: fix VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page)) when unpoison memory (Audra Mitchell) [RHEL-117059] {CVE-2025-39883}

[4.18.0-553.86.1]
- smb: client: fix race with concurrent opens in rename(2) (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-118237] {CVE-2025-39825}
- smb: client: fix race with concurrent opens in unlink(2) (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-118237]
- e1000e: fix heap overflow in e1000_set_eeprom (Corinna Vinschen) [RHEL-123105] {CVE-2025-39898}
- nfsd: handle get_client_locked() failure in nfsd4_setclientid_confirm() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-125595] {CVE-2025-38724}
- nbd: fix incomplete validation of ioctl arg (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-122965] {CVE-2023-53513}
- arch/powerpc: commandline option to enable P11 support (Mamatha Inamdar) [RHEL-107921]
- perf/pmu-events/powerpc: Update json mapfile with Power11 PVR (Mamatha Inamdar) [RHEL-107921]
- perf vendor events powerpc: Add PVN for HX-C2000 CPU with Power8 Architecture (Mamatha Inamdar) [RHEL-107921]
- tools/perf/arch/powerpc: Fix the CPU ID const char* value by adding 0x prefix (Mamatha Inamdar) [RHEL-107921]
- powerpc/perf: Power11 Performance Monitoring support (Mamatha Inamdar) [RHEL-107921]
- powerpc/perf: Add __init attribute to eligible functions (Mamatha Inamdar) [RHEL-107921]
- powerpc: Add Power11 architected and raw mode (Mamatha Inamdar) [RHEL-107921]

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:4.18.0-553.87.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-553.87.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-553.87.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-core 0:4.18.0-553.87.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-cross-headers 0:4.18.0-553.87.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-553.87.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-553.87.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-553.87.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-553.87.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.87.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-553.87.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-553.87.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-headers 0:4.18.0-553.87.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-553.87.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.87.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-553.87.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-553.87.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:4.18.0-553.87.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perf 0:4.18.0-553.87.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-perf 0:4.18.0-553.87.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 6

  • Critical 9.8

    nfsd: handle get_client_locked() failure in nfsd4_setclientid_confirm()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: handle get_client_locked() failure in nfsd4_setclientid_confirm() Lei Lu recently reported that nfsd4_setclientid_confirm() did not check the return value from get_client_locked(). a SE…

  • High 7.8

    smb: client: fix race with concurrent opens in rename(2)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix race with concurrent opens in rename(2) Besides sending the rename request to the server, the rename process also involves closing any deferred close, waiting for outstanding…

  • Unscored —

    nbd: fix incomplete validation of ioctl arg

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nbd: fix incomplete validation of ioctl arg We tested and found an alarm caused by nbd_ioctl arg without verification. The UBSAN warning calltrace like below: UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in fs…

  • Unscored —

    mm/memory-failure: fix VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page)) when unpoison memory

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/memory-failure: fix VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page)) when unpoison memory When I did memory failure tests, below panic occurs: page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page)) ker…

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2025-39898 Rejected

    This CVE ID has been rejected or withdrawn by its CVE Numbering Authority.

  • Unscored —

    tcp: Clear tcp_sk(sk)->fastopen_rsk in tcp_disconnect().

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tcp: Clear tcp_sk(sk)->fastopen_rsk in tcp_disconnect(). syzbot reported the splat below where a socket had tcp_sk(sk)->fastopen_rsk in the TCP_ESTABLISHED state. [0] syzbot reused the server…