[El-errata] New Ksplice updates for UEKR8 6.12.0 on OL9 and OL10 (ELSA-2025-20551)

Fri Oct 3 08:51:09 UTC 2025

Synopsis: ELSA-2025-20551 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2018-3646 CVE-2025-22115 CVE-2025-37984 CVE-2025-38139 CVE-2025-38375 CVE-2025-38382 CVE-2025-38387 CVE-2025-38396 CVE-2025-38399 CVE-2025-38412 CVE-2025-38413 CVE-2025-38445 CVE-2025-38457 CVE-2025-38461 CVE-2025-38462 CVE-2025-38463 CVE-2025-38464 CVE-2025-38466 CVE-2025-38468 CVE-2025-38471 CVE-2025-38472 CVE-2025-38473 CVE-2025-38477 CVE-2025-38488 CVE-2025-38494 CVE-2025-38495 CVE-2025-38499 CVE-2025-38511 CVE-2025-38512 CVE-2025-38527 CVE-2025-38550

Users with Oracle Linux Premier Support can now use Ksplice to patch
against the latest Oracle Linux Security Advisory, ELSA-2025-20551.
More information about this errata can be found at
https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-20551.html

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack running UEKR8 6.12.0 on
OL9 and OL10 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-2025-22115: Use-after-free in Btrfs filesystem driver.

* CVE-2025-37984: Integer overflow in Crypto ECC driver.

* CVE-2025-38139: Out-of-bounds memory access in NetFS driver.

* CVE-2025-38375: Out-of-bounds memory access in Virtio network driver.

* CVE-2025-38382: Out-of-bounds memory access in Btrfs filesystem driver.

* CVE-2025-38387: Null pointer dereference in Mellanox MLX5 InfiniBand driver.

* CVE-2025-38396: Information leak in memfd_secret syscall.

* CVE-2025-38399: Null pointer dereference in Generic Target Core Mod (TCM) and ConfigFS Infrastructure driver.

* CVE-2025-38412: Kernel crash in Dell WMI-based Systems management driver.

* CVE-2025-38413: Out-of-bounds memory access in Virtio network driver.

* CVE-2025-38445: Kernel panic in RAID-1 (mirroring) mode driver.

* CVE-2025-38457: Null pointer dereference in QoS and/or fair queueing driver.

* CVE-2025-38461: Denial-of-service in Virtual Socket protocol driver.

* CVE-2025-38462: Null pointer dereference in Virtual Socket protocol driver.

* CVE-2025-38463: Integer overflow in TCP/IP networking driver.

* CVE-2025-38464: Use-after-free in TIPC Protocol driver.

* CVE-2025-38466: Data corruption in Kernel performance events and counters driver.

* CVE-2025-38468: Kernel oops in Hierarchical Token Bucket network scheduler.

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

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

* CVE-2025-38473: Null pointer dereference in Bluetooth subsystem.

* CVE-2025-38477: Use-after-free in Quick Fair Queueing scheduler (QFQ) driver.

* CVE-2025-38488: Use-after-free in SMB/CIFS client driver.

* CVE-2025-38494, CVE-2025-38495: Out-of-bounds memory access in HID bus driver.

* CVE-2025-38499: Overly permissive privilege checks in Virtual File System.

* CVE-2025-38511: Missing memory clearing in Intel XE driver.

* CVE-2025-38512: Missing check for A-MSDU attacks in Wireless driver.

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

* CVE-2025-38550: Use-after-free in multicast support for IPv6 driver.

* Improved fix for CVE-2018-3646: L1 Terminal Fault Reloaded.

* Information leak on x86 CPUs (VMScape).

Orabug: 38343659

* 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-2025-38371, CVE-2025-38376, CVE-2025-38377, CVE-2025-38381,
CVE-2025-38384, CVE-2025-38390, CVE-2025-38401, CVE-2025-38407,
CVE-2025-38408, CVE-2025-38437, CVE-2025-38446, CVE-2025-38452,
CVE-2025-38454, CVE-2025-38469, CVE-2025-38475, CVE-2025-38476,
CVE-2025-38478, CVE-2025-38480, CVE-2025-38481, CVE-2025-38482,
CVE-2025-38483, CVE-2025-38485, CVE-2025-38489, CVE-2025-38490,
CVE-2025-38507, CVE-2025-38510, CVE-2025-38517, CVE-2025-38521,
CVE-2025-38529, CVE-2025-38530, CVE-2025-38532, CVE-2025-38533,
CVE-2025-38538, CVE-2025-38542, CVE-2025-38545, CVE-2025-38548

SUPPORT

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