[El-errata] New Ksplice updates for RHCK 9 (ELSA-2025-16880)

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Synopsis: ELSA-2025-16880 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2025-21864 CVE-2025-38234 CVE-2025-38472 CVE-2025-38527 CVE-2025-38718 CVE-2025-39682 CVE-2025-39698

Users with Oracle Linux Premier Support can now use Ksplice to patch
against the latest Oracle Linux Security Advisory, ELSA-2025-16880.
More information about this errata can be found at
https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-16880.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-2025-21864: Kernel assertion failure in TCP/IP networking driver.

* CVE-2025-38234: Kernel panic in the scheduler subsystem.

* CVE-2025-38472: Kernel crash in Netfilter driver.

* CVE-2025-38527: Use-after-free in SMB/CIFS client driver.

* CVE-2025-38718: Use of uninitialized memory in SCTP Protocol driver.

* CVE-2025-39682: Use-after-free in Transport Layer Security driver.

* CVE-2025-39698: Use-after-free in io_uring futex driver.

SUPPORT

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