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Medium ELSA-2026-58555 1 CVE

Moderate: NetworkManager security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Aug 24, 2026 · Updated Aug 24, 2026

Summary

[1.40.16-21.0.1]
- Add support for DAD_CONFLICT to nm-dispatcher
- Drop 777 permissions from Networkmanager-dispatcher drop-in directory [Orabug: 37581862]
- Add a dropin file to make Networkmanager-dispatcher persistent [Orabug: 36989910]
- disable MPTCP handling by default [Orabug: 35081472]
- Fix ignore-carrier logic [Orabug: 34956744]
- Disable regeneration of the documentation [Orabug: 34712048]
- add connectivity check via Oracle servers [Orabug: 32051972]
- Disable the build of NetworkManager-config-connectivity-* subpackage for 8.3
- Revert 'infiniband: avoid normalizing the p-key when reading from ifcfg'

[1:1.40.16-21]
- Fix CVE-2026-10805 (RHEL-191622)

Fixed packages 16

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 NetworkManager 1:1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 NetworkManager-adsl 1:1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 NetworkManager-bluetooth 1:1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 NetworkManager-cloud-setup 1:1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 NetworkManager-config-connectivity-oracle 1:1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 NetworkManager-config-server 1:1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 NetworkManager-dispatcher-routing-rules 1:1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 NetworkManager-initscripts-updown 1:1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 NetworkManager-libnm 1:1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 NetworkManager-libnm-devel 1:1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 NetworkManager-ovs 1:1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 NetworkManager-ppp 1:1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 NetworkManager-team 1:1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 NetworkManager-tui 1:1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 NetworkManager-wifi 1:1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 NetworkManager-wwan 1:1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 1