[El-errata] ELSA-2025-23241 Important: Oracle Linux 9 kernel security update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2025-23241

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-23241.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 9 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kernel-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-stablelists-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.noarch.rpm
kernel-core-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-core-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-matched-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-core-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-extra-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-uki-virt-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-matched-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-core-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-extra-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uki-virt-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uki-virt-addons-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
libperf-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
perf-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
python3-perf-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
rtla-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm
rv-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
kernel-cross-headers-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.aarch64.rpm
kernel-headers-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.aarch64.rpm
libperf-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.aarch64.rpm
perf-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.aarch64.rpm
python3-perf-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.aarch64.rpm
rtla-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.aarch64.rpm
rv-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.aarch64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol9/SRPMS-updates/kernel-5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2025-38499
CVE-2025-39966
CVE-2025-40176




Description of changes:

[5.14.0-611.16.1]
- 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]

[5.14.0-611.16.1]
- CVE-2025-38499 kernel: clone_private_mnt(): make sure that caller has CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the right userns (Abhi Das) [RHEL-129261] {CVE-2025-38499}
- tls: wait for pending async decryptions if tls_strp_msg_hold fails (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-128860] {CVE-2025-40176}

[5.14.0-611.15.1]
- nbd: override creds to kernel when calling sock_{send,recv}msg() (Ming Lei) [RHEL-123845]
- scsi: lpfc: avoid crashing in lpfc_nlp_get() if lpfc_nodelist was freed (Ewan D. Milne) [RHEL-127982]
- scsi: lpfc: Fix reusing an ndlp that is marked NLP_DROPPED during FLOGI (Ewan D. Milne) [RHEL-127982]
- crypto: ccp - Always pass in an error pointer to __sev_platform_shutdown_locked() (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- crypto: ccp - Fix SNP panic notifier unregistration (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- crypto: ccp - Fix dereferencing uninitialized error pointer (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- crypto: ccp - Fix __sev_snp_shutdown_locked (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- crypto: ccp - Move SEV/SNP Platform initialization to KVM (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- KVM: SVM: Add support to initialize SEV/SNP functionality in KVM (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- crypto: ccp - Add new SEV/SNP platform shutdown API (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- crypto: ccp - Register SNP panic notifier only if SNP is enabled (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- crypto: ccp - Reset TMR size at SNP Shutdown (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- crypto: ccp - Ensure implicit SEV/SNP init and shutdown in ioctls (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- crypto: ccp - Move dev_info/err messages for SEV/SNP init and shutdown (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]
- crypto: ccp - Abort doing SEV INIT if SNP INIT fails (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-70006]

[5.14.0-611.14.1]
- iommufd: Fix race during abort for file descriptors (Eder Zulian) [RHEL-123786] {CVE-2025-39966}