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High 2 exploited CVEs ELSA-2025-2473 4 CVEs

Important: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Mar 10, 2025 · Updated Mar 10, 2025

Summary

[4.18.0-553.44.1_10.OL8]
- 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]

[4.18.0-553.44.1_10]
- HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-81825] {CVE-2024-50302}
- ALSA: usb-audio: Fix a DMA to stack memory bug (Jaroslav Kysela) [RHEL-81786]
- ALSA: usb-audio: Fix for sampling rates support for Mbox3 (Jaroslav Kysela) [RHEL-81786]
- ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential out-of-bound accesses for Extigy and Mbox devices (Jaroslav Kysela) [RHEL-81786] {CVE-2024-53197}
- ALSA: usb-audio: Add sampling rates support for Mbox3 (Jaroslav Kysela) [RHEL-81786]

[4.18.0-553.43.1_10]
- s390/module: fix loading modules with a lot of relocations (Mete Durlu) [RHEL-78999]
- s390/module: Use s390_kernel_write() for late relocations (Mete Durlu) [RHEL-78999]
- locking/atomic: Make test_and_*_bit() ordered on failure (Herton R. Krzesinski) [RHEL-69894]
- pps: Fix a use-after-free (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-77971]
- KVM: s390: Change virtual to physical address access in diag 0x258 handler (Thomas Huth) [RHEL-68323 RHEL-65229]
- KVM: s390: gaccess: Check if guest address is in memslot (Thomas Huth) [RHEL-68323 RHEL-65229]
- KVM: s390: Fix SORTL and DFLTCC instruction format error in __insn32_query (Thomas Huth) [RHEL-68323 RHEL-65229]
- s390/uv: Panic for set and remove shared access UVC errors (Thomas Huth) [RHEL-68323 RHEL-65229]
- KVM: s390: vsie: Use virt_to_phys for crypto control block (Thomas Huth) [RHEL-68323 RHEL-65229]
- KVM: s390: vsie: Use virt_to_phys for facility control block (Thomas Huth) [RHEL-68323 RHEL-65229]
- scsi: megaraid_sas: Fix for a potential deadlock (Tomas Henzl) [RHEL-21984] {CVE-2024-57807}
- net/mlx5: Reload auxiliary devices in pci error handlers (Benjamin Poirier) [RHEL-78756]
- net/mlx5: Suspend auxiliary devices only in case of PCI device suspend (Benjamin Poirier) [RHEL-78756]

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-core 0:4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-cross-headers 0:4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-headers 0:4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perf 0:4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-perf 0:4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 4

  • High 7.8
    CVE-2024-53197 Exploited

    ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential out-of-bound accesses for Extigy and Mbox devices

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential out-of-bound accesses for Extigy and Mbox devices A bogus device can provide a bNumConfigurations value that exceeds the initial value used in usb_get_configura…

    KEV Apr 9, 2025
  • Medium 5.5
    CVE-2024-50302 Exploited

    HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer Since the report buffer is used by all kinds of drivers in various ways, let's zero-initialize it during allocation to make sure that it can't be …

    KEV Mar 4, 2025
  • High 7.8

    pps: Fix a use-after-free

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pps: Fix a use-after-free On a board running ntpd and gpsd, I'm seeing a consistent use-after-free in sys_exit() from gpsd when rebooting: pps pps1: removed ------------[ cut here ]----------…

  • Medium 5.5

    scsi: megaraid_sas: Fix for a potential deadlock

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: megaraid_sas: Fix for a potential deadlock This fixes a 'possible circular locking dependency detected' warning CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(&instance->reset_mutex); lock(&shost->scan_mutex…