[El-errata] New Ksplice updates for UEKR7 5.15.0 on OL8 and OL9 (ELSA-2025-28048)

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Synopsis: ELSA-2025-28048 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2025-38678 CVE-2025-39885 CVE-2025-39955 CVE-2025-40018 CVE-2025-40026 CVE-2025-40027 CVE-2025-40044 CVE-2025-40048 CVE-2025-40055 CVE-2025-40087 CVE-2025-40105 CVE-2025-40111 CVE-2025-40115 CVE-2025-40134 CVE-2025-40153 CVE-2025-40173 CVE-2025-40178 CVE-2025-40186 CVE-2025-40187 CVE-2025-40194 CVE-2025-40204 CVE-2025-40205 CVE-2025-40231 CVE-2025-40233 CVE-2025-40240

Users with Oracle Linux Premier Support can now use Ksplice to patch
against the latest Oracle Linux Security Advisory, ELSA-2025-28048.
More information about this errata can be found at
https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-28048.html

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack running UEKR7 5.15.0 on
OL8 and OL9 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-2025-38678: Kernel oops in Netfilter driver.

Orabug: 38744086


* CVE-2025-39885: Deadlock in OCFS2 filesystem driver.

* CVE-2025-39955, CVE-2025-40186: Dropped packets in TCP/IP networking driver.

* CVE-2025-40018: Use-after-free in IP virtual server (FTP) driver.

* CVE-2025-40026: Race in x86 KVM.

* CVE-2025-40027: Use-after-free in 9P protocol stack.

* CVE-2025-40044: Out-of-bounds memory access in UDF filesystem.

* CVE-2025-40048: Hang in Generic Hyper-V VMBus userspace I/O driver.

* CVE-2025-40055: Use-after-free in OCFS2 filesystem.

* CVE-2025-40087: Remote null pointer dereference in Parallel NFS FlexFile server driver.

* CVE-2025-40105: Memory leak in core filesystem layer.

* CVE-2025-40111: Use-after-free in VMware vGPU driver.

* CVE-2025-40115: Use-after-free in LSI Fusion-MPT SAS driver.

* CVE-2025-40134: Null pointer dereference in multi-device driver (RAID/LVM).

* CVE-2025-40153: Soft lockup in HugeTLB filesystem.

* CVE-2025-40173: Use-after-free in IPv6 networking stack.

* CVE-2025-40178: Null pointer dereference in core kernel.

* CVE-2025-40187: Null pointer dereference in SCTP Protocol driver.

* CVE-2025-40194: Kernel crash in Intel P state control driver.

* CVE-2025-40204: Variable-time MAC check in SCTP Protocol driver.

* CVE-2025-40205: Out-of-bounds memory access in BTRFS filesystem.

* CVE-2025-40231: Deadlock in Virtual Socket protocol driver.

* CVE-2025-40233: Kernel crash in OCFS2 filesystem driver.

* CVE-2025-40240: Remote null pointer dereference in SCTP Protocol driver.

* Logic error 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-2024-58011, CVE-2025-39869, CVE-2025-39873, CVE-2025-39876,
CVE-2025-39934, CVE-2025-39943, CVE-2025-39951, CVE-2025-39985,
CVE-2025-39986, CVE-2025-39987, CVE-2025-39995, CVE-2025-40029,
CVE-2025-40043, CVE-2025-40060, CVE-2025-40068, CVE-2025-40088,
CVE-2025-40092, CVE-2025-40094, CVE-2025-40106, CVE-2025-40112,
CVE-2025-40116, CVE-2025-40124, CVE-2025-40126, CVE-2025-40127,
CVE-2025-40188


SUPPORT

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