[El-errata] ELSA-2025-3026 Important: Oracle Linux 8 kernel security update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2025-3026

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-3026.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
bpftool-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm
kernel-core-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
perf-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
bpftool-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
perf-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates//kernel-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2023-52922




Description of changes:

[4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.OL8]
- 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]

[4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10]
- gve: trigger RX NAPI instead of TX NAPI in gve_xsk_wakeup (Joshua Washington) [RHEL-73269]
- gve: process XSK TX descriptors as part of RX NAPI (Joshua Washington) [RHEL-73269]
- gve: guard XSK operations on the existence of queues (Joshua Washington) [RHEL-73269]
- gve: Fix an edge case for TSO skb validity check (Joshua Washington) [RHEL-73269]
- gve: Fix XDP TX completion handling when counters overflow (Joshua Washington) [RHEL-73269]
- gve: Clear napi->skb before dev_kfree_skb_any() (Joshua Washington) [RHEL-73269] {CVE-2024-40937}
- gve: ignore nonrelevant GSO type bits when processing TSO headers (Joshua Washington) [RHEL-73269]
- can: bcm: Fix UAF in bcm_proc_show() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-80733] {CVE-2023-52922}
- gfs2: glock holder GL_NOPID fix (Andreas Gruenbacher) [RHEL-80694]
- gfs2: Decode missing glock flags in tracepoints (Andreas Gruenbacher) [RHEL-80694]
- net/smc: support ipv4 mapped ipv6 addr client for smc-r v2 (Mete Durlu) [RHEL-79810]
- net: smc: fix spurious error message from __sock_release() (Mete Durlu) [RHEL-79812]