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Oracle Linux: CVE-2025-38058: ELSA-2025-20521: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 18, 2025
Added
Aug 12, 2025
Modified
Feb 4, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
__legitimize_mnt(): check for MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT should be under mount_lock
... or we risk stealing final mntput from sync umount - raising mnt_count
after umount(2) has verified that victim is not busy, but before it
has set MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT; in that case __legitimize_mnt() doesn't see
that it's safe to quietly undo mnt_count increment and leaves dropping
the reference to caller, where it'll be a full-blown mntput().
Check under mount_lock is needed; leaving the current one done before
taking that makes no sense - it's nowhere near common enough to bother
with.

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek
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