[El-errata] New Ksplice updates for UEKR8 6.12.0 on OL9 and OL10 (ELSA-2026-50094)

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Synopsis: ELSA-2026-50094 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2025-40149 CVE-2025-40257 CVE-2025-40258 CVE-2025-68209

Users with Oracle Linux Premier Support can now use Ksplice to patch
against the latest Oracle Linux Security Advisory, ELSA-2026-50094.
More information about this errata can be found at
https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2026-50094.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-2025-40149: Use-after-free in Transport Layer Security HW offload driver.

Orabug: 38649136


* CVE-2025-40257: Use-after-free in MPTCP: Multipath TCP driver.

* CVE-2025-40258: Use-after-free in Multipath TCP driver.

* CVE-2025-68209: Null pointer dereference in Mellanox devices driver.

Orabug: 38750222


SUPPORT

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