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Medium ELSA-2026-49857 1 CVE

Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Aug 5, 2026 · Updated Aug 5, 2026

Summary

[4.18.0-553.151.1]
- 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]

[4.18.0-553.151.1]
- net: dns_resolver: allow shorter names in dns_query() (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-213976]
- net/dns_resolver: use kasprintf + kmemdup_nul to simplify dns_query (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-213976]
- net/dns_resolver: consolidate namelen checks in dns_query (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-213976]
- dns: remove redundant zero length namelen check (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-213976]
- ipc: limit next_id allocation to the valid ID range (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-188216] {CVE-2026-52923}
- KVM: s390: Limit adapter indicator access to mapped page (Christoph Schlameuss) [RHEL-183880]

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:4.18.0-553.151.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-553.151.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-553.151.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-core 0:4.18.0-553.151.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-cross-headers 0:4.18.0-553.151.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-553.151.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-553.151.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-553.151.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-553.151.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.151.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-553.151.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-553.151.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-headers 0:4.18.0-553.151.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-553.151.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.151.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-553.151.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-553.151.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:4.18.0-553.151.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perf 0:4.18.0-553.151.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-perf 0:4.18.0-553.151.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.8
    CVE-2026-52923 Public exploit

    ipc: limit next_id allocation to the valid ID range

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipc: limit next_id allocation to the valid ID range The checkpoint/restore sysctl path can request the next SysV IPC id through ids->next_id. ipc_idr_alloc() currently forwards that request t…