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High ELSA-2026-50978 1 CVE

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

Published Aug 6, 2026 · Updated Aug 6, 2026

Summary

[4.18.0-553.153.1]
- 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]

[4.18.0-553.153.1]
- scsi: storvsc: Handle PERSISTENT_RESERVE_IN truncation for Hyper-V vFC (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [RHEL-188270]
- scsi: storvsc: Process unsupported MODE_SENSE_10 (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [RHEL-188270]
- x86/CPU/AMD: Prevent improper isolation of shared resources in Zen2's op cache (Dennis Chen) [RHEL-188786] {CVE-2025-54518}

[4.18.0-553.152.1]
- gfs2: page poisoning fix (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-214099]
- bpf: Fix combination of jit blinding and pointers to bpf subprogs. (Viktor Malik) [RHEL-191844]

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:4.18.0-553.153.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-553.153.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-553.153.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-core 0:4.18.0-553.153.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-cross-headers 0:4.18.0-553.153.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-553.153.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-553.153.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-553.153.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-553.153.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.153.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-553.153.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-553.153.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-headers 0:4.18.0-553.153.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-553.153.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.153.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-553.153.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-553.153.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:4.18.0-553.153.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perf 0:4.18.0-553.153.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-perf 0:4.18.0-553.153.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 1