vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2025-21962: ELSA-2025-12746: kernel security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Apr 1, 2025
Added
Jul 10, 2025
Modified
Aug 12, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cifs: Fix integer overflow while processing closetimeo mount option
User-provided mount parameter closetimeo of type u32 is intended to have
an upper limit, but before it is validated, the value is converted from
seconds to jiffies which can lead to an integer overflow.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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