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High ELSA-2026-8921 2 CVEs

Important: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 9)

Published Apr 20, 2026 · Updated Apr 20, 2026

Summary

[5.14.0-611.49.1]
- Disable UKI signing [Orabug: 36571828]
- 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 <= 15.3-1.0.5]
- Remove upstream reference during boot (Kevin Lyons) [Orabug: 34729535]
- Add Oracle Linux IMA certificates
- Add new Oracle Linux Driver Signing (key 1) certificate [Orabug: 37985764]

[5.14.0-611.49.1]
- rtnetlink: Allocate vfinfo size for VF GUIDs when supported (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-149469] {CVE-2025-22075}

[5.14.0-611.48.1]
- scsi: qla2xxx: Fix improper freeing of purex item (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-159222] {CVE-2025-68741}
- NFSv4: Check for delegation validity in nfs_start_delegation_return_locked() (Scott Mayhew) [RHEL-151414]
- Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix memory leak in set_ssp_complete (David Marlin) [RHEL-151728]
- Bluetooth: hci_uart: fix null-ptr-deref in hci_uart_write_work (David Marlin) [RHEL-151728]
- Bluetooth: btusb: revert use of devm_kzalloc in btusb (David Marlin) [RHEL-151728]
- Bluetooth: btusb: reorder cleanup in btusb_disconnect to avoid UAF (David Marlin) [RHEL-151728]
- net: hv_netvsc: reject RSS hash key programming without RX indirection table (Medha Mummigatti) [RHEL-150571]
- net/sched: sch_cake: Fix incorrect qlen reduction in cake_drop (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-150455] {CVE-2025-39766}
- net/sched: Make cake_enqueue return NET_XMIT_CN when past buffer_limit (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-150455] {CVE-2025-39766}
- iommu/vt-d: Deduplicate cache_tag_flush_all by reusing flush_range (Jerry Snitselaar) [RHEL-144218]
- iommu/vt-d: Fix missing PASID in dev TLB flush with cache_tag_flush_all (Jerry Snitselaar) [RHEL-144218]
- i40e: validate ring_len parameter against hardware-specific values (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-141722]

Fixed packages 29

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-core 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-cross-headers 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-core 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-devel 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-devel-matched 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-modules 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-modules-core 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-uki-virt 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-devel 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-devel-matched 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-doc 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-headers 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-modules 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-modules-core 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-modules-extra 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-tools 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-tools-libs 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-uki-virt 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-uki-virt-addons 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 libperf 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 perf 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 python3-perf 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 rtla 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7
Oracle Linux · 9 rv 0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_7

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Critical 9.8

    scsi: qla2xxx: Fix improper freeing of purex item

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: Fix improper freeing of purex item In qla2xxx_process_purls_iocb(), an item is allocated via qla27xx_copy_multiple_pkt(), which internally calls qla24xx_alloc_purex_item(). The…

  • Unscored —

    net/sched: Make cake_enqueue return NET_XMIT_CN when past buffer_limit

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: Make cake_enqueue return NET_XMIT_CN when past buffer_limit The following setup can trigger a WARNING in htb_activate due to the condition: !cl->leaf.q->q.qlen tc qdisc del dev lo …