[USN-7861-3] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7861-3
November 13, 2025

linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8 vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

Software Description:
- linux-oracle: Linux kernel for Oracle Cloud systems
- linux-nvidia-6.8: Linux kernel for NVIDIA systems
- linux-oracle-6.8: Linux kernel for Oracle Cloud systems

Details:

Jean-Claude Graf, Sandro Rüegge, Ali Hajiabadi, and Kaveh Razavi discovered
that the Linux kernel contained insufficient branch predictor isolation
between a guest and a userspace hypervisor for certain processors. This
flaw is known as VMSCAPE. An attacker in a guest VM could possibly use this
to expose sensitive information from the host OS. (CVE-2025-40300)

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel.
An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:
- HSI subsystem;
- Bluetooth subsystem;
- Timer subsystem;
(CVE-2025-37838, CVE-2025-38118, CVE-2025-38352)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
linux-image-6.8.0-1039-oracle 6.8.0-1039.40
linux-image-6.8.0-1039-oracle-64k 6.8.0-1039.40
linux-image-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1039.40
linux-image-oracle-64k-6.8 6.8.0-1039.40
linux-image-oracle-64k-lts-24.04 6.8.0-1039.40
linux-image-oracle-lts-24.04 6.8.0-1039.40

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
linux-image-6.8.0-1039-oracle 6.8.0-1039.40~22.04.1
linux-image-6.8.0-1039-oracle-64k 6.8.0-1039.40~22.04.1
linux-image-6.8.0-1042-nvidia 6.8.0-1042.45~22.04.1
linux-image-6.8.0-1042-nvidia-64k 6.8.0-1042.45~22.04.1
linux-image-nvidia-6.8 6.8.0-1042.45~22.04.1
linux-image-nvidia-64k-6.8 6.8.0-1042.45~22.04.1
linux-image-nvidia-64k-hwe-22.04 6.8.0-1042.45~22.04.1
linux-image-nvidia-hwe-22.04 6.8.0-1042.45~22.04.1
linux-image-oracle 6.8.0-1039.40~22.04.1
linux-image-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1039.40~22.04.1
linux-image-oracle-64k 6.8.0-1039.40~22.04.1
linux-image-oracle-64k-6.8 6.8.0-1039.40~22.04.1

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have
been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and
reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed.
Unless you manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages
(e.g. linux-generic, linux-generic-lts-RELEASE, linux-virtual,
linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically perform
this as well.

References:
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7861-3
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7861-2
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7861-1
CVE-2025-37838, CVE-2025-38118, CVE-2025-38352, CVE-2025-40300

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-oracle/6.8.0-1039.40
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-nvidia-6.8/6.8.0-1042.45~22.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-oracle-6.8/6.8.0-1039.40~22.04.1