[El-errata] New Ksplice updates for RHCK 9 (ELSA-2025-21112)

Mon Dec 22 21:28:48 UTC 2025

Synopsis: ELSA-2025-21112 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2022-2978 CVE-2023-53331 CVE-2023-53373 CVE-2023-53494 CVE-2025-38566 CVE-2025-38571 CVE-2025-39702 CVE-2025-39718 CVE-2025-39819 CVE-2025-39841 CVE-2025-39855 CVE-2025-39975

Users with Oracle Linux Premier Support can now use Ksplice to patch
against the latest Oracle Linux Security Advisory, ELSA-2025-21112.
More information about this errata can be found at
https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-21112.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-2022-2978: Denial-of-service when initializing inodes.

* CVE-2023-53331: Kernel panic in Persistent store driver.

* CVE-2023-53373: Use-after-free in Sequence Number IV Generator driver.

* CVE-2023-53494: Use-after-free in XTS driver.

* CVE-2025-38566: Remote denial-of-service in SUNRPC.

* CVE-2025-38571: Use-after-free in NFS over TLS.

* CVE-2025-39702: Non-constant MACs comparision time in IPv6 Segment Routing HMAC driver.

* CVE-2025-39718: Out-of-bounds memory access in Virtual Socket protocol driver.

* CVE-2025-39819: Reference count leak in SMB/CIFS client driver.

* CVE-2025-39841: Use-after-free in Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel driver.

* CVE-2025-39855: Null pointer dereference in Intel(R) Ethernet Connection E800 Series driver.

* CVE-2025-39975: Out-of-bounds memory access in SMB/CIFS client 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-2022-50087

SUPPORT

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