CVE-2025-37983 Affecting kernel-uek-core package, versions <0:5.15.0-310.184.5.2.el8uek


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE8-KERNELUEKCORE-10767523
  • published17 Jul 2025
  • disclosed20 May 2025

Introduced: 20 May 2025

CVE-2025-37983  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:8 kernel-uek-core to version 0:5.15.0-310.184.5.2.el8uek or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2025-20470.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-uek-core package and not the kernel-uek-core package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

qibfs: fix another leak

failure to allocate inode => leaked dentry...

this one had been there since the initial merge; to be fair, if we are that far OOM, the odds of failing at that particular allocation are low...

CVSS Base Scores

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