vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2025-38031: ELSA-2025-20470: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (IMPORTANT)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 18, 2025
Added
Jul 17, 2025
Modified
Jul 17, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
padata: do not leak refcount in reorder_work
A recent patch that addressed a UAF introduced a reference count leak:
the parallel_data refcount is incremented unconditionally, regardless
of the return value of queue_work(). If the work item is already queued,
the incremented refcount is never decremented.
Fix this by checking the return value of queue_work() and decrementing
the refcount when necessary.
Resolves:
Unreferenced object 0xffff9d9f421e3d80 (size 192):
comm "cryptomgr_probe", pid 157, jiffies 4294694003
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
80 8b cf 41 9f 9d ff ff b8 97 e0 89 ff ff ff ff ...A............
d0 97 e0 89 ff ff ff ff 19 00 00 00 1f 88 23 00 ..............#.
backtrace (crc 838fb36):
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x284/0x320
padata_alloc_pd+0x20/0x1e0
padata_alloc_shell+0x3b/0xa0
0xffffffffc040a54d
cryptomgr_probe+0x43/0xc0
kthread+0xf6/0x1f0
ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x50
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek
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