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Critical ELSA-2026-93414 1 CVE

Critical: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Nov 2, 2026 · Updated Nov 2, 2026

Summary

[4.18.0-553.182.1]
- 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]

[4.18.0-553.182.1]
- ipv4: free inet_opt and ireq_opt after an RCU grace period (Davide Caratti) [RHEL-295615] {CVE-2026-98432}

[4.18.0-553.181.1]
- net: skbuff: propagate shared-frag marker in skb_zerocopy() (Xin Long) [RHEL-291583]
- smb: client: bound dirent name against end of SMB response in cifs_filldir (Jorge San Emeterio Villalain) [RHEL-278321] {CVE-2026-93787}
- scsi: target: core: Fix iSCSI ISID use-after-free in REGISTER AND MOVE (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-283491] {CVE-2026-72083}
- tipc: require net admin for TIPCv2 netlink mutators (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-273171] {CVE-2026-74283}
- ipv6: exthdrs: refresh nh pointer after ipv6_hop_jumbo() (Antoine Tenart) [RHEL-259350] {CVE-2026-63924}
- ipv6: exthdrs: refresh nh after handling HAO option (Antoine Tenart) [RHEL-259375] {CVE-2026-63922}
- af_unix: Fix peek then tail dereference UAF in unix_stream_data_wait() (Jamie Bainbridge) [RHEL-225873] {CVE-2026-64109}

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:4.18.0-553.182.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-553.182.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-553.182.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-core 0:4.18.0-553.182.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-cross-headers 0:4.18.0-553.182.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-553.182.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-553.182.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-553.182.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-553.182.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.182.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-553.182.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-553.182.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-headers 0:4.18.0-553.182.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-553.182.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.182.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-553.182.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-553.182.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:4.18.0-553.182.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perf 0:4.18.0-553.182.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-perf 0:4.18.0-553.182.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2026-98432 Public exploit

    ipv4: free inet_opt and ireq_opt after an RCU grace period

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv4: free inet_opt and ireq_opt after an RCU grace period tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock() transfers ownership of ireq->ireq_opt to the child socket (newinet->inet_opt) without copying it. Another cpu…