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High ELSA-2026-500238 4 CVEs

Important: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (Oracle Linux 7)

Published Sep 1, 2026 · Updated Sep 1, 2026

Summary

[5.4.17-2136.359.3]
- Partial revert of 'x86/alternatives: Optimize optimize_nops()' (Harshit Mogalapalli) [Orabug: 39866546]
- Revert 'x86/alternatives: Add alt_instr.flags' (Harshit Mogalapalli) [Orabug: 39866546]
- x86/bugs: Make Safe-RET robust against interrupt injection (Borislav Petkov (AMD)) [Orabug: 39784513] {CVE-2026-68480}
- x86/alternatives: Disable interrupts and sync when optimizing NOPs in place (Thomas Gleixner) [Orabug: 39784513]
- x86/alternative: Support relocations in alternatives (Peter Zijlstra) [Orabug: 39784513]
- x86/alternative: Make debug-alternative selective (Peter Zijlstra) [Orabug: 39784513]
- x86/alternatives: Add alt_instr.flags (Borislav Petkov (AMD)) [Orabug: 39784513]
- x86/asm: Provide ALTERNATIVE_3 (Peter Zijlstra) [Orabug: 39784513]
- x86/alternative: Optimize single-byte NOPs at an arbitrary position (Borislav Petkov) [Orabug: 39784513]
- x86/alternative: Align insn bytes vertically (Borislav Petkov) [Orabug: 39784513]
(H. Peter Anvin (Intel)) [Orabug: 39784513]
- x86/alternatives: Optimize optimize_nops() (Peter Zijlstra) [Orabug: 39784513]
- x86: Add insn_decode_kernel() (Peter Zijlstra) [Orabug: 39784513]
- x86/insn: Add an insn_decode() API (Borislav Petkov) [Orabug: 39784513]
- x86/alternative: Use ALTERNATIVE_TERNARY() in _static_cpu_has() (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 39784513]
- x86/alternative: Support ALTERNATIVE_TERNARY (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 39784513]
- x86/alternative: Merge include files (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 39784513]
- x86/alternative: Drop unused feature parameter from ALTINSTR_REPLACEMENT() (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 39784513]
- x86/insn: Support big endian cross-compiles (Martin Schwidefsky) [Orabug: 39784513]
- x86/tools: Use tools headers for instruction decoder selftests (Vasily Gorbik) [Orabug: 39784513]
- tools headers: Get tools's linux/compiler.h closer to the kernel's (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) [Orabug: 39784513]
- perf build: Allow nested externs to enable BUILD_BUG() usage (Vasily Gorbik) [Orabug: 39784513]
- objtool: Allow nested externs to enable BUILD_BUG() (Vasily Gorbik) [Orabug: 39784513]
- objtool: Make relocation in alternative handling arch dependent (Julien Thierry) [Orabug: 39784513]
- x86/alternatives: Add pr_fmt() to debug macros (Borislav Petkov) [Orabug: 39784513]
- tools headers: Adopt verbatim copy of compiletime_assert() from kernel sources (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) [Orabug: 39784513]
- x86/alternatives: Teach text_poke_bp() to emulate instructions (Peter Zijlstra) [Orabug: 39784513]
- tools headers: Synchronize linux/bits.h with the kernel sources (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) [Orabug: 39784513]
- net/rds: restrict RDS_INFO dumps to caller netns (Praveen Kumar Kannoju) [Orabug: 39681637]

[5.4.17-2136.359.2]
- net: tap: set skb->dev before parsing virtio net header in tap_get_user_xdp() (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 39558751]
- rds: tcp: fix uninit-value in __inet_bind (Tabrez Ahmed) [Orabug: 39668203]
- rds: tcp: cleanup if kmem_cache_alloc fails in rds_tcp_conn_alloc() (Sowmini Varadhan) [Orabug: 39668203]
- net/rds: harden rds_rm_size (Manjunath Patil) [Orabug: 39812534]
- rds: ib: move gc_count reset before free_percpu (Manjunath Patil) [Orabug: 39818510]
- rds: fix lfstack_pop_all sequence reset (Manjunath Patil) [Orabug: 39818510]

[5.4.17-2136.359.1]
- KVM: arm64: Make nVHE ASLR conditional on RANDOMIZE_BASE (David Brazdil) [Orabug: 39374251]
- arm64: kvm: Fix IDMAP overlap with HYP VA (Russell King) [Orabug: 39374251]
- arm64: KVM: Invoke compute_layout() before alternatives are applied (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior) [Orabug: 39374251]
- ocfs2: fix possible deadlock between unlink and dio_end_io_write (Joseph Qi) [Orabug: 39273589] {CVE-2026-31598}
- fs/ocfs2: fix comments mentioning i_mutex (hongnanli) [Orabug: 39273589]
- xfrm: defensively unhash xfrm_state lists in __xfrm_state_delete (Michal Kosiorek) [Orabug: 39460235] {CVE-2026-46116}
- net/rds: zero per-item info buffer before handing it to visitors (Michael Bommarito) [Orabug: 39638198] {CVE-2026-52995}
- uek: kabi: update x86_64 kABI files for a new symbol (Saeed Mirzamohammadi) [Orabug: 39651636]
- IB/rxe: use rxe_drop_ref to release rxe_pd (Wengang Wang) [Orabug: 39674348]
- IB/uverbs: enhance authorization checks for ib_uverbs_share_pd() (Wengang Wang) [Orabug: 39674348]
- fs/binfmt_elf: validate reserved VA ELF notes (Jianfeng Wang) [Orabug: 39681044]
- mm: preserve page-table boundaries for reserved VA mappings (Jianfeng Wang) [Orabug: 39681044]
- mm: enforce max_map_count for reserved VA mappings (Jianfeng Wang) [Orabug: 39681044]
- xen/ovmapi: terminate values passed to xenbus_write (Joe Jin) [Orabug: 39726701]
- xen/ovmapi: free queued events on release (Joe Jin) [Orabug: 39726701]
- xen/ovmapi: prevent duplicate app registration (Joe Jin) [Orabug: 39726701]
- xen/ovmapi: avoid raw user pointer access in get_next_event (Joe Jin) [Orabug: 39726701]
- xen/ovmapi: reject oversized posted event payloads (Joe Jin) [Orabug: 39726701]
- rds: Prevent kernel-infoleak in rds_notify_queue_get() (Peilin Ye) [Orabug: 39772651]
- rds: do not leak kernel memory to user land (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 39772651]

[5.4.17-2136.358.2]
- xfs: resample the data fork mapping after cycling ILOCK (Darrick J. Wong) [Orabug: 39776792] {CVE-2026-64600}
- net: Work around Marvell NIC TX stalls (Venkat Venkatsubra) [Orabug: 39765820]

[5.4.17-2136.358.1]
- KVM: x86: Fix shadow paging use-after-free due to unexpected role (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 39673871] {CVE-2026-53359}
- KVM: x86: Fix shadow paging use-after-free due to unexpected GFN (Sean Christopherson) [Orabug: 39673871] {CVE-2026-46113}
- KVM: x86/MMU: Recursively zap nested TDP SPs when zapping last/only parent (Ben Gardon) [Orabug: 39673871]
- KVM: x86/mmu: Move flush logic from mmu_page_zap_pte() to FNAME(invlpg) (Sean Christopherson) [Orabug: 39673871]
- KVM: x86/mmu: pull call to drop_large_spte() into __link_shadow_page() (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 39673871]
- KVM: x86/mmu: Passing

Fixed packages 8

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek 0:5.4.17-2136.359.3.el8uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-container 0:5.4.17-2136.359.3.el8uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-container-debug 0:5.4.17-2136.359.3.el8uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-debug 0:5.4.17-2136.359.3.el8uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-debug-devel 0:5.4.17-2136.359.3.el8uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-devel 0:5.4.17-2136.359.3.el8uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-doc 0:5.4.17-2136.359.3.el8uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-tools 0:5.4.17-2136.359.3.el7uek

Vulnerabilities 4

  • High 7.8

    xfrm: defensively unhash xfrm_state lists in __xfrm_state_delete

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: defensively unhash xfrm_state lists in __xfrm_state_delete KASAN reproduces a slab-use-after-free in __xfrm_state_delete()'s hlist_del_rcu calls under syzkaller load on linux-6.12.y sta…

  • High 7.5

    ocfs2: fix possible deadlock between unlink and dio_end_io_write

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: fix possible deadlock between unlink and dio_end_io_write ocfs2_unlink takes orphan dir inode_lock first and then ip_alloc_sem, while in ocfs2_dio_end_io_write, it acquires these locks…

  • Unscored —

    net/rds: zero per-item info buffer before handing it to visitors

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/rds: zero per-item info buffer before handing it to visitors rds_for_each_conn_info() and rds_walk_conn_path_info() both hand a caller-allocated on-stack u64 buffer to a per-connection vi…

  • Unscored —

    x86/bugs: Make Safe-RET robust against interrupt injection

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/bugs: Make Safe-RET robust against interrupt injection An attacker injecting interrupts while the Safe-RET mitigation executes on machines affected by SRSO can neutralize the safe return …