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Oracle Linux 8 ELSA-2025-15008 Kernel Moderate Use-After-Free Risks

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Calendar Grey September 4, 2025
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The latest updates for Oracle Linux 8's kernel address critical security flaws like race condition vulnerabilities and several integration issues.
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

[4.18.0-553.72.1.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] [4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10] - scsi: lpfc: Use memcpy() for BIOS version (Ewan D. Milne) [RHEL-105927] {CVE-2025-38332} - watchdog/perf: properly initialize the turbo mode timestamp and rearm counter (David Arcari) [RHEL-103371] - RDMA/iwcm: Fix use-after-free of work objects after cm_id destruction (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-104260] {CVE-2025-38211} - RDMA/iwcm: Fix WARNING:at_kernel/workqueue.c:#check_flush_dependency (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-104260] {CVE-2024-47696} - RDMA/iwcm: Fix a use-after-free related to destroying...

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SRPMs

http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/kernel-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.src.rpm

x86_64

bpftool-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm kernel-core-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-doc-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-modules-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm perf-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm python3-perf-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

aarch64

bpftool-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm kernel-headers-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm perf-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm python3-perf-4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

Related CVEs: CVE-2025-38211 CVE-2025-38332 CVE-2025-38464 CVE-2025-38477

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