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High ELSA-2026-83157 9 CVEs

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

Published Oct 15, 2026 · Updated Oct 15, 2026

Summary

[4.18.0-553.174.1]
- 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]

[4.18.0-553.174.1]
- powerpc/pseries: pci - logic bug (Mamatha Inamdar) [RHEL-240146]
- md/raid5-ppl: fix use-after-free in ppl_do_flush() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-278122] {CVE-2026-93262}
- svcrdma: Reject Write/Reply chunks with segcount 0 (Olga Kornievskaia) [RHEL-275085] {CVE-2026-93228}
- svcrdma: Address an integer overflow (Olga Kornievskaia) [RHEL-275085] {CVE-2024-53151}
- NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during blocked-lock reaping (Olga Kornievskaia) [RHEL-270899] {CVE-2026-90036}
- svcrdma: Validate Read chunk positions before reconstruction (Olga Kornievskaia) [RHEL-271446] {CVE-2026-89526}
- udp: fix potential use-after-free in tunnel segmentation (Antoine Tenart) [RHEL-268111] {CVE-2026-74705}
- ASoC: SOF: ipc3-control: Fix heap overflow in bytes_ext put/get (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-261680] {CVE-2026-72262}
- ALSA: usx2y: bound the hwdep mmap fault offset (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-256443] {CVE-2026-74641}
- net/sched: cls_route: fix fastmap use-after-free on filter (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-248781] {CVE-2026-74583}
- net/sched: act_tunnel_key: Defer dst_release to RCU callback (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-240916] {CVE-2026-68377}

[4.18.0-553.173.1]
- drm/amdkfd: Add TLB flush after MES queue eviction/suspension (Jocelyn Falempe) [RHEL-262108] {CVE-2026-89811}
- drm/amd/display: set new_stream to NULL after release (Jocelyn Falempe) [RHEL-260521] {CVE-2026-68236}
- drm/vmwgfx: use check_add_overflow for shader size+offset bound (Jocelyn Falempe) [RHEL-258131] {CVE-2026-80887}
- drm/amdgpu/vce: fix integer overflow in image size (Jocelyn Falempe) [RHEL-237823 RHEL-268877] {CVE-2026-68108}
- drm/dp/mst: fix buffer overflows in sideband chunk accumulation (Jocelyn Falempe) [RHEL-240862] {CVE-2026-68278}
- ipv6: validate extension header length before copying to cmsg (Antoine Tenart) [RHEL-225371] {CVE-2026-63920}
- wifi: mac80211: defer link RX stats percpu free to RCU (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-263760] {CVE-2026-68409}
- cifs: validate DFS referral string offsets (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-261990] {CVE-2026-72318}
- openvswitch: vport: fix self-deadlock on release of tunnel ports (Timothy Redaelli) [RHEL-253844] {CVE-2026-31678}
- openvswitch: defer tunnel netdev_put to RCU release (Timothy Redaelli) [RHEL-253844] {CVE-2026-31678}

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:4.18.0-553.174.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-553.174.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-553.174.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-core 0:4.18.0-553.174.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-cross-headers 0:4.18.0-553.174.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-553.174.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-553.174.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-553.174.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-553.174.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.174.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-553.174.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-553.174.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-headers 0:4.18.0-553.174.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-553.174.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.174.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-553.174.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-553.174.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:4.18.0-553.174.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perf 0:4.18.0-553.174.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-perf 0:4.18.0-553.174.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 9

  • Critical 10.0

    udp: fix potential use-after-free in tunnel segmentation

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udp: fix potential use-after-free in tunnel segmentation __skb_udp_tunnel_segment() gets the UDP header before ensuring the tunnel header is in the skb head. If the pull reallocates skb->head…

  • Critical 9.8

    svcrdma: Validate Read chunk positions before reconstruction

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: svcrdma: Validate Read chunk positions before reconstruction The RPC/RDMA Read chunk position field is supplied by the remote client and stored verbatim in the parsed chunk list. xdr_count_re…

  • Critical 9.8

    NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during blocked-lock reaping

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during blocked-lock reaping A bare lock owner -- its only remaining reference a blocked lock on nn->blocked_locks_lru -- holds a raw pointer to its nfs4_cl…

  • Critical 9.1

    svcrdma: Reject Write/Reply chunks with segcount 0

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: svcrdma: Reject Write/Reply chunks with segcount 0 A peer can send a Write or Reply chunk whose segcount field is zero. xdr_check_write_chunk() only rejects segcount > rc_maxpages, so zero pa…

  • High 7.8

    net/sched: act_tunnel_key: Defer dst_release to RCU callback

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: act_tunnel_key: Defer dst_release to RCU callback Fix a race-condition use-after-free in tunnel_key_release_params(). The function releases the metadata_dst of the old params synch…

  • High 7.8

    ASoC: SOF: ipc3-control: Fix heap overflow in bytes_ext put/get

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: SOF: ipc3-control: Fix heap overflow in bytes_ext put/get The ipc_control_data buffer is allocated as kzalloc(max_size), where max_size covers the entire struct sof_ipc_ctrl_data includ…

  • High 7.8
    CVE-2026-74583 Public exploit

    net/sched: cls_route: fix fastmap use-after-free on filter

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: cls_route: fix fastmap use-after-free on filter The route4 classifier maintains a 16-slot fastmap cache that stores raw struct route4_filter pointers indexed by (id, iif). The read…

  • High 7.8

    ALSA: usx2y: bound the hwdep mmap fault offset

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usx2y: bound the hwdep mmap fault offset snd_us428ctls_vm_fault() turns the faulting page offset into a kernel address with no bound of any kind: offset = vmf->pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT; vadd…

  • High 7.8

    md/raid5-ppl: fix use-after-free in ppl_do_flush()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/raid5-ppl: fix use-after-free in ppl_do_flush() The loop in ppl_do_flush() continues iterating after calling ppl_io_unit_finished(), touching io->pending_flushes and leading to a use-after…