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High ELSA-2026-3963 2 CVEs

Important: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Mar 9, 2026 · Updated Mar 9, 2026

Summary

[4.18.0-553.111.1]
- 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]

[4.18.0-553.111.1]
- macvlan: fix possible UAF in macvlan_forward_source() (Hangbin Liu) [RHEL-144120] {CVE-2026-23001}

[4.18.0-553.110.1]
- pNFS: fix a missing wake up while waiting on NFS_LAYOUT_DRAIN (Olga Kornievskaia) [RHEL-131922]
- fbcon: Avoid using FNTCHARCNT() and hard-coded built-in font charcount (Jocelyn Falempe) [RHEL-148636]
- audit: Use the new {get,put}_fs_pwd_pool() APIs to get/put pwd references (Waiman Long) [RHEL-146026]
- fs: Add a pool of extra fs->pwd references to fs_struct (Waiman Long) [RHEL-146026]
- ipv6: BUG() in pskb_expand_head() as part of calipso_skbuff_setattr() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-143535] {CVE-2025-71085}

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:4.18.0-553.111.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-553.111.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-553.111.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-core 0:4.18.0-553.111.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-cross-headers 0:4.18.0-553.111.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-553.111.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-553.111.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-553.111.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-553.111.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.111.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-553.111.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-553.111.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-headers 0:4.18.0-553.111.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-553.111.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.111.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-553.111.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-553.111.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:4.18.0-553.111.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perf 0:4.18.0-553.111.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-perf 0:4.18.0-553.111.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 2

  • High 7.8
    CVE-2026-23001 Public exploit

    macvlan: fix possible UAF in macvlan_forward_source()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: macvlan: fix possible UAF in macvlan_forward_source() Add RCU protection on (struct macvlan_source_entry)->vlan. Whenever macvlan_hash_del_source() is called, we must clear entry->vlan pointe…

  • High 7.5

    ipv6: BUG() in pskb_expand_head() as part of calipso_skbuff_setattr()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: BUG() in pskb_expand_head() as part of calipso_skbuff_setattr() There exists a kernel oops caused by a BUG_ON(nhead < 0) at net/core/skbuff.c:2232 in pskb_expand_head(). This bug is tri…