Oracle alert ELSA-2026-500136 (kernel)
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| Subject: | [El-errata] ELSA-2026-500136 Important: Oracle Linux 8 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update | |
| Date: | Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:52:50 -0700 | |
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Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2026-500136 http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2026-500136.html The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network: x86_64: kernel-uek-5.4.17-2136.358.2.0.1.el8uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-container-5.4.17-2136.358.2.0.1.el8uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-container-debug-5.4.17-2136.358.2.0.1.el8uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-debug-5.4.17-2136.358.2.0.1.el8uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-debug-devel-5.4.17-2136.358.2.0.1.el8uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-devel-5.4.17-2136.358.2.0.1.el8uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-doc-5.4.17-2136.358.2.0.1.el8uek.noarch.rpm SRPMS: http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-5.4.17... Related CVEs: CVE-2026-68480 Description of changes: [5.4.17-2136.358.2.0.1] - x86/bugs: Make Safe-RET robust against interrupt injection (Borislav Petkov (AMD)) [Orabug: 39832992] {CVE-2026-68480} - x86/alternatives: Disable interrupts and sync when optimizing NOPs in place (Thomas Gleixner) [Orabug: 39832992] - x86/alternative: Support relocations in alternatives (Peter Zijlstra) [Orabug: 39832992] - x86/alternative: Make debug-alternative selective (Peter Zijlstra) [Orabug: 39832992] - x86/alternatives: Add alt_instr.flags (Borislav Petkov (AMD)) [Orabug: 39832992] - x86/asm: Provide ALTERNATIVE_3 (Peter Zijlstra) [Orabug: 39832992] - x86/alternative: Optimize single-byte NOPs at an arbitrary position (Borislav Petkov) [Orabug: 39832992] - x86/alternative: Align insn bytes vertically (Borislav Petkov) [Orabug: 39832992] (H. Peter Anvin (Intel)) [Orabug: 39832992] - x86/alternatives: Optimize optimize_nops() (Peter Zijlstra) [Orabug: 39832992] - x86: Add insn_decode_kernel() (Peter Zijlstra) [Orabug: 39832992] - x86/insn: Add an insn_decode() API (Borislav Petkov) [Orabug: 39832992] - x86/alternative: Use ALTERNATIVE_TERNARY() in _static_cpu_has() (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 39832992] - x86/alternative: Support ALTERNATIVE_TERNARY (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 39832992] - x86/alternative: Merge include files (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 39832992] - x86/alternative: Drop unused feature parameter from ALTINSTR_REPLACEMENT() (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 39832992] - x86/insn: Support big endian cross-compiles (Martin Schwidefsky) [Orabug: 39832992] - x86/tools: Use tools headers for instruction decoder selftests (Vasily Gorbik) [Orabug: 39832992] - tools headers: Get tools's linux/compiler.h closer to the kernel's (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) [Orabug: 39832992] - perf build: Allow nested externs to enable BUILD_BUG() usage (Vasily Gorbik) [Orabug: 39832992] - objtool: Allow nested externs to enable BUILD_BUG() (Vasily Gorbik) [Orabug: 39832992] - objtool: Make relocation in alternative handling arch dependent (Julien Thierry) [Orabug: 39832992] - x86/alternatives: Add pr_fmt() to debug macros (Borislav Petkov) [Orabug: 39832992] - tools headers: Adopt verbatim copy of compiletime_assert() from kernel sources (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) [Orabug: 39832992] - x86/alternatives: Teach text_poke_bp() to emulate instructions (Peter Zijlstra) [Orabug: 39832992] - tools headers: Synchronize linux/bits.h with the kernel sources (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) [Orabug: 39832992] - net: tap: set skb->dev before parsing virtio net header in tap_get_user_xdp() (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 39832997] _______________________________________________ El-errata mailing list El-errata@oss.oracle.com https://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/el-errata