[El-errata] ELSA-2026-58555 Moderate: Oracle Linux 8 NetworkManager security update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2026-58555

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2026-58555.html

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

x86_64:
NetworkManager-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
NetworkManager-adsl-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
NetworkManager-bluetooth-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
NetworkManager-cloud-setup-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
NetworkManager-config-connectivity-oracle-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm
NetworkManager-config-server-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm
NetworkManager-dispatcher-routing-rules-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm
NetworkManager-initscripts-updown-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm
NetworkManager-libnm-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.i686.rpm
NetworkManager-libnm-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
NetworkManager-libnm-devel-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.i686.rpm
NetworkManager-libnm-devel-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
NetworkManager-ovs-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
NetworkManager-ppp-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
NetworkManager-team-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
NetworkManager-tui-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
NetworkManager-wifi-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
NetworkManager-wwan-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
NetworkManager-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
NetworkManager-adsl-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
NetworkManager-bluetooth-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
NetworkManager-cloud-setup-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
NetworkManager-config-connectivity-oracle-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm
NetworkManager-config-server-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm
NetworkManager-dispatcher-routing-rules-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm
NetworkManager-initscripts-updown-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm
NetworkManager-libnm-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
NetworkManager-libnm-devel-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
NetworkManager-ovs-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
NetworkManager-ppp-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
NetworkManager-team-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
NetworkManager-tui-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
NetworkManager-wifi-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
NetworkManager-wwan-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/NetworkManager-1.40.16-21.0.1.el8_10.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2026-10805




Description of changes:

[1.40.16-21.0.1]
- Add support for DAD_CONFLICT to nm-dispatcher
- Drop 777 permissions from Networkmanager-dispatcher drop-in directory [Orabug: 37581862]
- Add a dropin file to make Networkmanager-dispatcher persistent [Orabug: 36989910]
- disable MPTCP handling by default [Orabug: 35081472]
- Fix ignore-carrier logic [Orabug: 34956744]
- Disable regeneration of the documentation [Orabug: 34712048]
- add connectivity check via Oracle servers [Orabug: 32051972]
- Disable the build of NetworkManager-config-connectivity-* subpackage for 8.3
- Revert "infiniband: avoid normalizing the p-key when reading from ifcfg"

[1:1.40.16-21]
- Fix CVE-2026-10805 (RHEL-191622)