[El-errata] New Ksplice updates for RHCK 9 (ELSA-2025-13962)

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Synopsis: ELSA-2025-13962 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2025-38084 CVE-2025-38085 CVE-2025-38124 CVE-2025-38159 CVE-2025-38471

Users with Oracle Linux Premier Support can now use Ksplice to patch
against the latest Oracle Linux Security Advisory, ELSA-2025-13962.
More information about this errata can be found at
https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-13962.html

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack running RHCK 9 install
these updates.

On systems that have "autoinstall = yes" in /etc/uptrack/uptrack.conf,
these updates will be installed automatically and you do not need to
take any action.

Alternatively, you can install these updates by running:

# /usr/sbin/uptrack-upgrade -y


DESCRIPTION

* CVE-2025-38084, CVE-2025-38085: Race condition in Transparent Hugepage driver.

* CVE-2025-38124: Kernel oops in TCP/IP networking driver.

* CVE-2025-38159: Out-of-bounds memory access in Realtek 802.11ac wireless chips driver.

* CVE-2025-38471: Use-after-free in Transport Layer Security driver.

* Note: Oracle has determined some CVEs are not applicable.

The kernel is not affected by the following CVEs
since the code under consideration is not compiled.

CVE-2025-37963


SUPPORT

Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com.