[El-errata] ELSA-2025-20560 Important: Oracle Linux 8 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2025-20560

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-20560.html

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


aarch64:
kernel-uek-5.4.17-2136.347.6.1.el8uek.aarch64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-5.4.17-2136.347.6.1.el8uek.aarch64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-5.4.17-2136.347.6.1.el8uek.aarch64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-5.4.17-2136.347.6.1.el8uek.aarch64.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-5.4.17-2136.347.6.1.el8uek.noarch.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-5.4.17-2136.347.6.1.el8uek.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[5.4.17-2136.347.6.1.el8uek]
- x86/vmscape: Warn when STIBP is disabled with SMT (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 38343661]
- x86/bugs: Move cpu_bugs_smt_update() down (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 38343661]
- x86/vmscape: Enable the mitigation (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 38343661]
- x86/vmscape: Add conditional IBPB mitigation (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 38343661]
- x86/vmscape: Add old Intel CPUs to affected list (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 38343661]
- x86/vmscape: Enumerate VMSCAPE bug (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 38343661]
- Documentation/hw-vuln: Add VMSCAPE documentation (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 38343661]