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High 1 exploited CVE ELSA-2025-15661 4 CVEs

Important: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 9)

Published Sep 12, 2025 · Updated Sep 12, 2025

Summary

[5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1_6.OL9]
- nvme-pci: remove two deallocate zeroes quirks [Orabug: 37756650]
- Disable UKI signing [Orabug: 36571828]
- Update Oracle Linux certificates (Kevin Lyons)
- Disable signing for aarch64 (Ilya Okomin)
- Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was added to the kernel trusted keys list (olkmod_signing_key.pem) [Orabug: 29539237]
- Update x509.genkey [Orabug: 24817676]
- Conflict with shim-ia32 and shim-x64 <= 15.3-1.0.5
- Remove upstream reference during boot (Kevin Lyons) [Orabug: 34729535]
- Add Oracle Linux IMA certificates
- Add new Oracle Linux Driver Signing (key 1) certificate [Orabug: 37985764]

[5.14.0-570.42.2_6]
- posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handle_posix_cpu_timers() and posix_cpu_timer_del() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-112780] {CVE-2025-38352}
- powerpc/pseries/iommu: create DDW for devices with DMA mask less than 64-bits (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-113173]

[5.14.0-570.42.1_6]
- powerpc/pseries/iommu: memory notifier incorrectly adds TCEs for pmemory (Mamatha Inamdar) [RHEL-103015]
- drm/framebuffer: Acquire internal references on GEM handles (Jose Exposito) [RHEL-106699] {CVE-2025-38449}
- drm/gem: Acquire references on GEM handles for framebuffers (Jose Exposito) [RHEL-106699] {CVE-2025-38449}
- drm/vkms: Fix use after free and double free on init error (CKI KWF BOT) [RHEL-99420] {CVE-2025-22097}
- scsi: lpfc: Use memcpy() for BIOS version (Ewan D. Milne) [RHEL-105933] {CVE-2025-38332}

Fixed packages 29

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-core 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-cross-headers 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-core 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-devel 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-devel-matched 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-modules 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-modules-core 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-uki-virt 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-devel 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-devel-matched 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-doc 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-headers 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-modules 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-modules-core 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-modules-extra 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-tools 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-tools-libs 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-uki-virt 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-uki-virt-addons 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 libperf 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 perf 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 python3-perf 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 rtla 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6
Oracle Linux · 9 rv 0:5.14.0-570.42.2.0.1.el9_6

Vulnerabilities 4

  • High 7.8
    CVE-2025-38352 Exploited Public exploit

    posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handle_posix_cpu_timers() and posix_cpu_timer_del()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handle_posix_cpu_timers() and posix_cpu_timer_del() If an exiting non-autoreaping task has already passed exit_notify() and calls handle_posix_cpu_timers() …

    KEV Sep 4, 2025
  • High 7.8

    drm/vkms: Fix use after free and double free on init error

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vkms: Fix use after free and double free on init error If the driver initialization fails, the vkms_exit() function might access an uninitialized or freed default_config pointer and it mi…

  • High 7.8

    drm/gem: Acquire references on GEM handles for framebuffers

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/gem: Acquire references on GEM handles for framebuffers A GEM handle can be released while the GEM buffer object is attached to a DRM framebuffer. This leads to the release of the dma-buf…

  • Unscored —

    scsi: lpfc: Use memcpy() for BIOS version

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: lpfc: Use memcpy() for BIOS version The strlcat() with FORTIFY support is triggering a panic because it thinks the target buffer will overflow although the correct target buffer size is…