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Medium ELSA-2025-22801 3 CVEs

Moderate: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Dec 8, 2025 · Updated Dec 8, 2025

Summary

[4.18.0-553.89.1]
- 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]

[4.18.0-553.89.1]
- mm: memcg: use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() to access stock->cached (Radostin Stoyanov) [RHEL-122774]
- mm: kmem: fix a NULL pointer dereference in obj_stock_flush_required() (Radostin Stoyanov) [RHEL-122774] {CVE-2023-53401}
- mm/memcg: revert ('mm/memcg: optimize user context object stock access') (Radostin Stoyanov) [RHEL-122774] {CVE-2023-53401}
- gfs2: Add proper lockspace locking (Andreas Gruenbacher) [RHEL-88660]
- gfs2: do_xmote cleanup (Andreas Gruenbacher) [RHEL-88660]

[4.18.0-553.88.1]
- scsi: s390: zfcp: Ensure synchronous unit_add (Mete Durlu) [RHEL-129199]
- RDMA/rxe: Fix incomplete state save in rxe_requester (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-124700] {CVE-2023-53539}
- RDMA/rxe: Fix mr->map double free (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-123715] {CVE-2022-50543}

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-core 0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-cross-headers 0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-headers 0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perf 0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-perf 0:4.18.0-553.89.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 3

  • High 7.8

    RDMA/rxe: Fix mr->map double free

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/rxe: Fix mr->map double free rxe_mr_cleanup() which tries to free mr->map again will be called when rxe_mr_init_user() fails: CPU: 0 PID: 4917 Comm: rdma_flush_serv Kdump: loaded Not tai…

  • High 7.8

    RDMA/rxe: Fix incomplete state save in rxe_requester

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/rxe: Fix incomplete state save in rxe_requester If a send packet is dropped by the IP layer in rxe_requester() the call to rxe_xmit_packet() can fail with err == -EAGAIN. To recover, the…

  • Medium 4.7

    mm: kmem: fix a NULL pointer dereference in obj_stock_flush_required()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: kmem: fix a NULL pointer dereference in obj_stock_flush_required() KCSAN found an issue in obj_stock_flush_required(): stock->cached_objcg can be reset between the check and dereference: …