[El-errata] ELSA-2025-2473 Important: Oracle Linux 8 kernel security update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2025-2473

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-2473.html

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

x86_64:
bpftool-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm
kernel-core-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
perf-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
bpftool-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
perf-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates//kernel-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2024-50302
CVE-2024-53197
CVE-2024-57807
CVE-2024-57979




Description of changes:

[4.18.0-553.44.1.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]

[4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10]
- HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-81825] {CVE-2024-50302}
- ALSA: usb-audio: Fix a DMA to stack memory bug (Jaroslav Kysela) [RHEL-81786]
- ALSA: usb-audio: Fix for sampling rates support for Mbox3 (Jaroslav Kysela) [RHEL-81786]
- ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential out-of-bound accesses for Extigy and Mbox devices (Jaroslav Kysela) [RHEL-81786] {CVE-2024-53197}
- ALSA: usb-audio: Add sampling rates support for Mbox3 (Jaroslav Kysela) [RHEL-81786]

[4.18.0-553.43.1.el8_10]
- s390/module: fix loading modules with a lot of relocations (Mete Durlu) [RHEL-78999]
- s390/module: Use s390_kernel_write() for late relocations (Mete Durlu) [RHEL-78999]
- locking/atomic: Make test_and_*_bit() ordered on failure (Herton R. Krzesinski) [RHEL-69894]
- pps: Fix a use-after-free (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-77971]
- KVM: s390: Change virtual to physical address access in diag 0x258 handler (Thomas Huth) [RHEL-68323 RHEL-65229]
- KVM: s390: gaccess: Check if guest address is in memslot (Thomas Huth) [RHEL-68323 RHEL-65229]
- KVM: s390: Fix SORTL and DFLTCC instruction format error in __insn32_query (Thomas Huth) [RHEL-68323 RHEL-65229]
- s390/uv: Panic for set and remove shared access UVC errors (Thomas Huth) [RHEL-68323 RHEL-65229]
- KVM: s390: vsie: Use virt_to_phys for crypto control block (Thomas Huth) [RHEL-68323 RHEL-65229]
- KVM: s390: vsie: Use virt_to_phys for facility control block (Thomas Huth) [RHEL-68323 RHEL-65229]
- scsi: megaraid_sas: Fix for a potential deadlock (Tomas Henzl) [RHEL-21984] {CVE-2024-57807}
- net/mlx5: Reload auxiliary devices in pci error handlers (Benjamin Poirier) [RHEL-78756]
- net/mlx5: Suspend auxiliary devices only in case of PCI device suspend (Benjamin Poirier) [RHEL-78756]