Synopsis: ELSA-2025-20520 can now be patched using Ksplice CVEs: CVE-2018-3646 CVE-2023-6931 CVE-2025-37798 CVE-2025-37890 CVE-2025-37932 CVE-2025-37953 CVE-2025-38000 CVE-2025-38001 CVE-2025-38035 CVE-2025-38051 CVE- 2025-38052 CVE-2025-38058 CVE-2025-38068 CVE-2025-38075 CVE-2025-38077 CVE- 2025-38079 CVE-2025-38177 CVE-2025-38273 CVE-2025-38350
Users with Oracle Linux Premier Support can now use Ksplice to patch against the latest Oracle Linux Security Advisory, ELSA-2025-20520. More information about this errata can be found at https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-20520.html INSTALLING THE UPDATES We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack running UEKR7 5.15.0 on OL8 and OL9 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-2023-6931: Privilege escalation in Kernel Performance Events. Orabug: 36261486 * CVE-2025-37798, CVE-2025-38177, CVE-2025-37932, CVE-2025-37953: Use-after- free in multiple network schedulers. * CVE-2025-37890, CVE-2025-38000, CVE-2025-38001, CVE-2025-38350: Use-after- free in HFSC network scheduler. * CVE-2025-38035: Null pointer dereference in NVMe Target subsystem. * CVE-2025-38051: Use-after-free in SMB/CIFS client driver. * CVE-2025-38052, CVE-2025-38273: Use-after-free in TIPC encryption 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-2025-38075: Null pointer dereference in iSCSI Target Mode Stack driver. * CVE-2025-38077: Out-of-bounds memory access in Dell WMI-based Systems management driver. * CVE-2025-38079: Use-after-free in hash algorithms interface layer. * Deadlock in hardware performance counter for perf. Orabug: 38178527 * Guest crash in APIC driver for KVM on x86. Orabug: 38195091 * Improved fix for CVE-2018-3646: L1 Terminal Fault Reloaded. * 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-2025-38043, CVE-2025-38065 SUPPORT Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support...@oracle.com. _______________________________________________ El-errata mailing list El-errata@oss.oracle.com https://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/el-errata
