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High ELSA-2026-2264 8 CVEs

Important: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Feb 9, 2026 · Updated Feb 9, 2026

Summary

[4.18.0-553.104.1]
- 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]

[4.18.0-553.104.1]
- Revert 'audit: Avoid excessive dput/dget in audit_context setup and reset paths' (Alexandra Hajkova) [RHEL-145856]

[4.18.0-553.103.1]
- ext4: fix use-after-free in ext4_orphan_cleanup (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-136000] {CVE-2022-50673}
- ext4: lost matching-pair of trace in ext4_truncate (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-136000] {CVE-2022-50673}
- ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential overflow of PCM transfer buffer (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-136904] {CVE-2025-40269}

[4.18.0-553.102.1]
- nvme-tcp: fix NULL pointer dereferences in nvmet_tcp_build_pdu_iovec (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-144327] {CVE-2026-22998}
- NFSv4: ensure the open stateid seqid doesn't go backwards (Scott Mayhew) [RHEL-121683]
- audit: Avoid excessive dput/dget in audit_context setup and reset paths (Waiman Long) [RHEL-140776]
- lockref: remove lockref_put_not_zero (Waiman Long) [RHEL-140776]
- lockref: stop doing cpu_relax in the cmpxchg loop (Waiman Long) [RHEL-140776]
- lockref: remove unused 'lockref_get_or_lock()' function (Waiman Long) [RHEL-140776]
- lockref: Limit number of cmpxchg loop retries (Waiman Long) [RHEL-140776]
- net: use dst_dev_rcu() in sk_setup_caps() (Hangbin Liu) [RHEL-129079] {CVE-2025-40170}
- ipv6: use RCU in ip6_xmit() (Hangbin Liu) [RHEL-129004] {CVE-2025-40135}
- ipv6: use RCU in ip6_output() (Hangbin Liu) [RHEL-128966] {CVE-2025-40158}
- net: dst: introduce dst->dev_rcu (Hangbin Liu) [RHEL-128966]
- net: Add locking to protect skb->dev access in ip_output (Hangbin Liu) [RHEL-128966]
- net: dst: add four helpers to annotate data-races around dst->dev (Hangbin Liu) [RHEL-128966]
- ipv4: use RCU protection in __ip_rt_update_pmtu() (Hangbin Liu) [RHEL-128966] {CVE-2025-21766}
- net: gain ipv4 mtu when mtu is not locked (Hangbin Liu) [RHEL-128966]
- ipv4: use RCU protection in ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward() (Hangbin Liu) [RHEL-128966]
- ipv4: add RCU protection to ip4_dst_hoplimit() (Hangbin Liu) [RHEL-128966]

[4.18.0-553.101.1]
- i40e: avoid redundant VF link state updates (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-141878]
- NFSv4/pNFS: Clear NFS_INO_LAYOUTCOMMIT in pnfs_mark_layout_stateid_invalid (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-140255] {CVE-2025-68349}
- vsock/vmci: Clear the vmci transport packet properly when initializing it (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-137692] {CVE-2025-38403}
- sched: Fix stop_one_cpu_nowait() vs hotplug (Herton R. Krzesinski) [RHEL-85625]

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:4.18.0-553.104.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-553.104.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-553.104.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-core 0:4.18.0-553.104.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-cross-headers 0:4.18.0-553.104.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-553.104.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-553.104.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-553.104.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-553.104.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.104.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-553.104.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-553.104.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-headers 0:4.18.0-553.104.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-553.104.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.104.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-553.104.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-553.104.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:4.18.0-553.104.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perf 0:4.18.0-553.104.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-perf 0:4.18.0-553.104.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 8

  • High 8.1

    ipv6: use RCU in ip6_xmit()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: use RCU in ip6_xmit() Use RCU in ip6_xmit() in order to use dst_dev_rcu() to prevent possible UAF.

  • High 8.1

    ipv6: use RCU in ip6_output()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: use RCU in ip6_output() Use RCU in ip6_output() in order to use dst_dev_rcu() to prevent possible UAF. We can remove rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pairs from ip6_finish_output2().

  • High 7.8

    ext4: fix use-after-free in ext4_orphan_cleanup

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix use-after-free in ext4_orphan_cleanup I caught a issue as follows: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __list_add_valid+…

  • High 7.8

    net: use dst_dev_rcu() in sk_setup_caps()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: use dst_dev_rcu() in sk_setup_caps() Use RCU to protect accesses to dst->dev from sk_setup_caps() and sk_dst_gso_max_size(). Also use dst_dev_rcu() in ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward(), and ip…

  • High 7.8

    ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential overflow of PCM transfer buffer

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential overflow of PCM transfer buffer The PCM stream data in USB-audio driver is transferred over USB URB packet buffers, and each packet size is determined dynamical…

  • High 7.5

    NFSv4/pNFS: Clear NFS_INO_LAYOUTCOMMIT in pnfs_mark_layout_stateid_invalid

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSv4/pNFS: Clear NFS_INO_LAYOUTCOMMIT in pnfs_mark_layout_stateid_invalid Fixes a crash when layout is null during this call stack: write_inode -> nfs4_write_inode -> pnfs_layoutcommit_inode…

  • High 7.5

    nvme-tcp: fix NULL pointer dereferences in nvmet_tcp_build_pdu_iovec

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme-tcp: fix NULL pointer dereferences in nvmet_tcp_build_pdu_iovec Commit efa56305908b ("nvmet-tcp: Fix a kernel panic when host sends an invalid H2C PDU length") added ttag bounds checking…

  • Unscored —

    vsock/vmci: Clear the vmci transport packet properly when initializing it

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/vmci: Clear the vmci transport packet properly when initializing it In vmci_transport_packet_init memset the vmci_transport_packet before populating the fields to avoid any uninitialise…