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High ELSA-2025-23241 3 CVEs

Important: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 9)

Published Dec 18, 2025 · Updated Dec 18, 2025

Summary

[5.14.0-611.16.1]
- Disable UKI signing [Orabug: 36571828]
- 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 <= 15.3-1.0.5]
- Remove upstream reference during boot (Kevin Lyons) [Orabug: 34729535]
- Add Oracle Linux IMA certificates
- Add new Oracle Linux Driver Signing (key 1) certificate [Orabug: 37985764]

[5.14.0-611.16.1]
- CVE-2025-38499 kernel: clone_private_mnt(): make sure that caller has CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the right userns (Abhi Das) [RHEL-129261] {CVE-2025-38499}
- tls: wait for pending async decryptions if tls_strp_msg_hold fails (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-128860] {CVE-2025-40176}

[5.14.0-611.15.1]
- nbd: override creds to kernel when calling sock_{send,recv}msg() (Ming Lei) [RHEL-123845]
- scsi: lpfc: avoid crashing in lpfc_nlp_get() if lpfc_nodelist was freed (Ewan D. Milne) [RHEL-127982]
- scsi: lpfc: Fix reusing an ndlp that is marked NLP_DROPPED during FLOGI (Ewan D. Milne) [RHEL-127982]
- crypto: ccp - Always pass in an error pointer to __sev_platform_shutdown_locked() (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- crypto: ccp - Fix SNP panic notifier unregistration (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- crypto: ccp - Fix dereferencing uninitialized error pointer (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- crypto: ccp - Fix __sev_snp_shutdown_locked (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- crypto: ccp - Move SEV/SNP Platform initialization to KVM (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- KVM: SVM: Add support to initialize SEV/SNP functionality in KVM (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- crypto: ccp - Add new SEV/SNP platform shutdown API (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- crypto: ccp - Register SNP panic notifier only if SNP is enabled (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- crypto: ccp - Reset TMR size at SNP Shutdown (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- crypto: ccp - Ensure implicit SEV/SNP init and shutdown in ioctls (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- crypto: ccp - Move dev_info/err messages for SEV/SNP init and shutdown (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- crypto: ccp - Abort doing SEV INIT if SNP INIT fails (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]

[5.14.0-611.14.1]
- iommufd: Fix race during abort for file descriptors (Eder Zulian) [RHEL-123786] {CVE-2025-39966}

Fixed packages 29

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-core 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-cross-headers 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-core 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-devel 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-devel-matched 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-modules 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-modules-core 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-uki-virt 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-devel 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-devel-matched 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-doc 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-headers 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-modules 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-modules-core 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-modules-extra 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-tools 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-tools-libs 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-uki-virt 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-uki-virt-addons 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 libperf 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 perf 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 python3-perf 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 rtla 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 rv 0:5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7

Vulnerabilities 3

  • Critical 9.8

    tls: wait for pending async decryptions if tls_strp_msg_hold fails

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tls: wait for pending async decryptions if tls_strp_msg_hold fails Async decryption calls tls_strp_msg_hold to create a clone of the input skb to hold references to the memory it uses. If we …

  • High 7.8

    clone_private_mnt(): make sure that caller has CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the right userns

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clone_private_mnt(): make sure that caller has CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the right userns What we want is to verify there is that clone won't expose something hidden by a mount we wouldn't be able to …

  • High 7.8

    iommufd: Fix race during abort for file descriptors

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommufd: Fix race during abort for file descriptors fput() doesn't actually call file_operations release() synchronously, it puts the file on a work queue and it will be released eventually. …