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Oracle Linux 8: ELSA-2025-8056 Important: Kernel Update and Fixes

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Calendar Grey May 22, 2025
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The Oracle Linux Security Update ELSA-2025-8057 outlines essential enhancements to system performance, featuring vital patches and optimizations for the kernel.
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

- [4.18.0-553.53.1.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] [4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10] - net/mlx5: Always stop health timer during driver removal (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-47712] {CVE-2024-40906} - net/mlx5: Split function_setup() to enable and open functions (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-47712] - net/mlx5e: SHAMPO, Fix invalid WQ linked list unlink (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-57117] {CVE-2024-44970} - net/mlx5e: SHAMPO, Fix incorrect page release (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-57117] {CVE-2024-46717} - s390/pci: Fix zpci_bus_is_isolated_vf() for non-VFs (Mete Durlu) [RHEL-88819] - platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Make init_bios_attributes() ACPI object parsing more robust...

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SRPMs

http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates//kernel-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.src.rpm

x86_64

bpftool-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm kernel-core-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-doc-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-modules-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm perf-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm python3-perf-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

aarch64

bpftool-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm kernel-headers-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm perf-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm python3-perf-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-553.53.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

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Related CVEs: CVE-2024-40906 CVE-2024-44970 CVE-2025-21756

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