vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2025-40331: ELSA-2026-50006: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (IMPORTANT)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 9, 2025
Added
Jan 15, 2026
Modified
Jan 15, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: Prevent TOCTOU out-of-bounds write
For the following path not holding the sock lock,
sctp_diag_dump() -> sctp_for_each_endpoint() -> sctp_ep_dump()
make sure not to exceed bounds in case the address list has grown
between buffer allocation (time-of-check) and write (time-of-use).

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek
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