[El-errata] ELSA-2025-10669 Important: Oracle Linux 8 kernel security update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2025-10669

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-10669.html

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

x86_64:
bpftool-4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm
kernel-core-4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
perf-4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm



SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/kernel-4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2022-49111
CVE-2022-49136
CVE-2022-49846




Description of changes:

- [4.18.0-553.60.1.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]
- Add new Oracle Linux Driver Signing (key 1) certificate [Orabug: 37985772]

[4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10]
- xfs: don't allocate COW extents when unsharing a hole (Brian Foster) [RHEL-83037]
- xfs: don't allocate into the data fork for an unshare request (Brian Foster) [RHEL-83037]
- s390/ism: add release function for struct device (Mete Durlu) [RHEL-97192]
- udf: Fix a slab-out-of-bounds write bug in udf_find_entry() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-99113] {CVE-2022-49846}

[4.18.0-553.59.1.el8_10]
- SUNRPC: Fix Oops in xs_tcp_send_request() when transport is disconnected (Olga Kornievskaia) [RHEL-83291]
- SUNRPC: Set TCP_CORK until the transmit queue is empty (Olga Kornievskaia) [RHEL-83291]
- tcp: add tcp_sock_set_cork (Olga Kornievskaia) [RHEL-83291]
- xfs: xfs_ail_push_all_sync() stalls when racing with updates (Brian Foster) [RHEL-88132]
- Bluetooth: Fix use after free in hci_send_acl (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-90428] {CVE-2022-49111}
- Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix failing to MGMT_OP_ADD_UUID/MGMT_OP_REMOVE_UUID (David Marlin) [RHEL-90468] {CVE-2022-49136}
- Bluetooth: hci_sync: add lock to protect HCI_UNREGISTER (David Marlin) [RHEL-90468] {CVE-2022-49136}
- Bluetooth: hci_sync: Only allow hci_cmd_sync_queue if running (David Marlin) [RHEL-90468] {CVE-2022-49136}
- Bluetooth: Cancel sync command before suspend and power off (David Marlin) [RHEL-90468] {CVE-2022-49136}
- Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix queuing commands when HCI_UNREGISTER is set (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-90468] {CVE-2022-49136}
- fix backport of "filelock: Remove locks reliably when fcntl/close race is detected" (Scott Mayhew) [RHEL-89709]
- NFSv4: Allow FREE_STATEID to clean up delegations (Benjamin Coddington) [RHEL-86932]
- NFSv4.1: constify the stateid argument in nfs41_test_stateid() (Trond Myklebust) [RHEL-86932]