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Oracle Linux: CVE-2025-37998: ELSA-2025-20470: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 29, 2025
Added
Jul 17, 2025
Modified
Aug 12, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
openvswitch: Fix unsafe attribute parsing in output_userspace()
This patch replaces the manual Netlink attribute iteration in
output_userspace() with nla_for_each_nested(), which ensures that only
well-formed attributes are processed.

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek
Title
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