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Medium ELSA-2026-0445 4 CVEs

Moderate: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 9)

Published Jan 12, 2026 · Updated Jan 12, 2026

Summary

[5.14.0-611.20.1]
- 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]

[5.14.0-611.20.1]
- HID: multitouch: fix slab out-of-bounds access in mt_report_fixup() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-124607] {CVE-2025-39806}
- sctp: avoid NULL dereference when chunk data buffer is missing (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-134001] {CVE-2025-40240}
- selftests/landlock: Add a new test for setuid() (Stepan Horacek) [RHEL-132712]
- selftests/landlock: Split signal_scoping_threads tests (Stepan Horacek) [RHEL-132712]
- landlock: Always allow signals between threads of the same process (Stepan Horacek) [RHEL-132712]
- landlock: Prepare to add second errata (Stepan Horacek) [RHEL-132712]
- landlock: Add the errata interface (Stepan Horacek) [RHEL-132712]
- selftests/landlock: Test signal scoping for threads (Stepan Horacek) [RHEL-132712]
- selftests/landlock: Test signal scoping (Stepan Horacek) [RHEL-132712]
- landlock: Add signal scoping (Stepan Horacek) [RHEL-132712]

[5.14.0-611.19.1]
- scsi: st: Skip buffer flush for information ioctls (John Meneghini) [RHEL-133543]
- scsi: st: Separate st-unique ioctl handling from SCSI common ioctl handling (John Meneghini) [RHEL-133543]
- audit: fix out-of-bounds read in audit_compare_dname_path() (Richard Guy Briggs) [RHEL-119176] {CVE-2025-39840}

[5.14.0-611.18.1]
- NFS: remove revoked delegation from server's delegation list (Benjamin Coddington) [RHEL-134237]
- redhat: use RELEASE_LOCALVERSION also for dist-get-tag (Jan Stancek)
- redhat: introduce RELEASE_LOCALVERSION variable (Jan Stancek)

[5.14.0-611.17.1]
- smb: client: handle lack of IPC in dfs_cache_refresh() (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-126165]
- smb: client: get rid of d_drop() in cifs_do_rename() (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-124917]
- mm/memory-failure: fix VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page)) when unpoison memory (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-119150] {CVE-2025-39883}

Fixed packages 29

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-core 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-cross-headers 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-core 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-devel 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-devel-matched 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-modules 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-modules-core 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-uki-virt 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-devel 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-devel-matched 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-doc 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-headers 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-modules 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-modules-core 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-modules-extra 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-tools 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-tools-libs 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-uki-virt 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-uki-virt-addons 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 libperf 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 perf 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 python3-perf 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 rtla 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 rv 0:5.14.0-611.20.1.el9_7

Vulnerabilities 4

  • High 8.8

    HID: multitouch: fix slab out-of-bounds access in mt_report_fixup()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: multitouch: fix slab out-of-bounds access in mt_report_fixup() A malicious HID device can trigger a slab out-of-bounds during mt_report_fixup() by passing in report descriptor smaller th…

  • High 7.5

    sctp: avoid NULL dereference when chunk data buffer is missing

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: avoid NULL dereference when chunk data buffer is missing chunk->skb pointer is dereferenced in the if-block where it's supposed to be NULL only. chunk->skb can only be NULL if chunk->he…

  • High 7.1

    audit: fix out-of-bounds read in audit_compare_dname_path()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: audit: fix out-of-bounds read in audit_compare_dname_path() When a watch on dir=/ is combined with an fsnotify event for a single-character name directly under / (e.g., creating /a), an out-o…

  • 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…