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Oracle Linux 8 Advisory ELSA-2026-50142 Kernel Important DoS

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Calendar Grey March 9, 2026
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Oracle Linux 8 kernel Important security update released to address multiple issues in the system.
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

[5.4.17-2136.353.3] - xfrm: flush all states in xfrm_state_fini (Sabrina Dubroca) [Orabug: 38934000] - xfrm: also call xfrm_state_delete_tunnel at destroy time for states that were never added (Sabrina Dubroca) [Orabug: 38934000] - Revert "xfrm: destroy xfrm_state synchronously on net exit path" (Sabrina Dubroca) [Orabug: 38934000] - Revert "IB/mlx5: Implement clear counters" (Sharath Srinivasan) [Orabug: 38923520] - Revert "IB/core: Implement clear counters" (Sharath Srinivasan) [Orabug: 38923520] - Revert "ib/core: add SET_DEVICE_OP call for clear_hw_stats()" (Sharath Srinivasan) [Orabug: 38923520] - fs: proc: inode: delay put_pid() by RCU (Stephen Brennan) [Orabug: 38766812] [5.4.17-2136.353.2] - Revert "perf/x86: Always store regs->ip in perf_callchain_kernel()" (Jiri Olsa) [Orabug: 38893604] - xfrm: delete x->tunnel as we delete x (Sabrina Dubroca) [Orabug: 38730493] {CVE-2025-40215} [5.4.17-2136.352.5] - crypto: af_alg - Fix incorrect boolean values in af_alg_ctx ...

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SRPMs

http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-5.4.17-2136.353.3.el8uek.src.rpm

x86_64

aarch64

kernel-uek-5.4.17-2136.353.3.el8uek.aarch64.rpm kernel-uek-debug-5.4.17-2136.353.3.el8uek.aarch64.rpm kernel-uek-debug-devel-5.4.17-2136.353.3.el8uek.aarch64.rpm kernel-uek-devel-5.4.17-2136.353.3.el8uek.aarch64.rpm kernel-uek-doc-5.4.17-2136.353.3.el8uek.noarch.rpm

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Related CVEs: CVE-2025-40215

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