[El-errata] New Ksplice updates for UEKR8 6.12.0 on OL9 and OL10 (6.12.0-100.28.2.2)

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Synopsis: 6.12.0-100.28.2.2 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2018-3646 CVE-2025-37953 CVE-2025-37954 CVE-2025-37961 CVE-2025-37992 CVE-2025-38000 CVE-2025-38001 CVE-2025-38018 CVE-2025-38020 CVE-2025-38022 CVE-2025-38035 CVE-2025-38051 CVE-2025-38058 CVE-2025-38068 CVE-2025-38073 CVE-2025-38075 CVE-2025-38079 CVE-2025-38089 CVE-2025-38097

Users with Oracle Linux Premier Support can now use Ksplice to patch
against the latest Oracle kernel update, 6.12.0-100.28.2.2.

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-2025-37953: Null pointer dereference in Hierarchical Token Bucket (HTB) driver.

* CVE-2025-37954: Memory leak in SMB/CIFS client driver.

* CVE-2025-37961: Use of uninitialized memory in IP virtual server driver.

* CVE-2025-37992: Null pointer dereference in Fair Queue driver.

* CVE-2025-38000: Use-after-free in Hierarchical Fair Service Curve (HFSC) driver.

* CVE-2025-38001: Use-after-free in HFSC network scheduler.

* CVE-2025-38018: Null pointer dereference in Transport Layer Security driver.

* CVE-2025-38020: Null pointer dereference in Mellanox 5th generation network adapters (ConnectX series) Ethernet driver.

* CVE-2025-38022: Use-after-free in InfiniBand driver.

* CVE-2025-38035: Null pointer dereference in NVMe Target subsystem.

* CVE-2025-38051: Use-after-free in SMB/CIFS client driver.

* CVE-2025-38058: Reference count leak in namespace management code.

* CVE-2025-38068: Out-of-bounds memory access in LZO compression algorithm driver.

* CVE-2025-38073: Kernel crash in Zoned block device driver.

* CVE-2025-38075: Null pointer dereference in iSCSI Target Mode Stack driver.

* CVE-2025-38079: Use-after-free in hash algorithms interface layer.

* CVE-2025-38089: Kernel crash in SUNRPC subsystem.

Orabug: 38178286


* CVE-2025-38097: Reference count leak in XFRM.

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

* Information leak on x86 CPUs (VMScape).

Orabug: 38343659


SUPPORT

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