Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2022-1198

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-1198.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
bpftool-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
https://oss.oracle.com:443/ol7/SRPMS-updates/kernel-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2021-4028
CVE-2021-4083




Description of changes:

[3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.OL7]
- Update Oracle Linux certificates (Ilya Okomin)
- Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was compiled into kernel (olkmod_signing_key.x509)(alexey.petrenko@oracle.com)
- Update x509.genkey [Orabug: 24817676]
- Conflict with shim-ia32 and shim-x64 <= 15-2.0.9.el7
- Update oracle(kernel-sig-key) value to match new certificate (Ilya Okomin)

[3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7]
- cifs: fix handling of DFS links where we can not access all components (Ronnie Sahlberg) [1937304]
- redhat: kernel.spec: install new kernel boot entry in posttrans, not post (Denys Vlasenko) [1893756]
- [s390] s390/cpumf: Support for CPU Measurement Facility CSVN 7 (Mete Durlu) [2048920]
- dm table: fix iterate_devices based device capability checks (Mike Snitzer) [2054743]
- buffer: eliminate the need to call free_more_memory() in __getblk_slow() (Carlos Maiolino) [2030609]
- buffer: grow_dev_page() should use __GFP_NOFAIL for all cases (Carlos Maiolino) [2030609]
- buffer: have alloc_page_buffers() use __GFP_NOFAIL (Carlos Maiolino) [2030609]
- mm: memcg: do not fail __GFP_NOFAIL charges (Rafael Aquini) [2054345]
- mm: filemap: do not drop action modifier flags from the gfp_mask passed to __add_to_page_cache_locked() (Rafael Aquini) [2054345]
- Added ZSTREAM=yes to makefile (Lucas Zampieri)

[3.10.0-1160.61.1.el7]
- x86/efi: reset the correct tlb_state when returning from efi_switch_mm() (Rafael Aquini) [2055587]

[3.10.0-1160.60.1.el7]
- svcrdma: Fix leak of svc_rdma_recv_ctxt objects (Benjamin Coddington) [2028740]
- sunrpc: Remove unneeded pointer dereference (Benjamin Coddington) [2028740]
- x86/platform/uv: Add more to secondary CPU kdump info (Frank Ramsay) [2042462]
- [s390] s390/AP: support new dynamic AP bus size limit (Claudio Imbrenda) [1997156]
- CI: Enable baseline realtime checks (Veronika Kabatova)
- CI: Rename pipelines to include release names (Veronika Kabatova)
- RDMA/cma: Do not change route.addr.src_addr.ss_family (Kamal Heib) [2032075] {CVE-2021-4028}
- fget: clarify and improve __fget_files() implementation (Miklos Szeredi) [2032478] {CVE-2021-4083}
- fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it (Miklos Szeredi) [2032478] {CVE-2021-4083}
- net: Set fput_needed iff FDPUT_FPUT is set (Miklos Szeredi) [2032478] {CVE-2021-4083}
- vfs, fdtable: Add fget_task helper (Miklos Szeredi) [2032478] {CVE-2021-4083}
- fs: add fget_many() and fput_many() (Miklos Szeredi) [2032478] {CVE-2021-4083}
- fs/file.c: __fget() and dup2() atomicity rules (Miklos Szeredi) [2032478] {CVE-2021-4083}
- vfs: Don't let __fdget_pos() get FMODE_PATH files (Miklos Szeredi) [2032478] {CVE-2021-4083}
- get rid of fget_light() (Miklos Szeredi) [2032478] {CVE-2021-4083}
- sockfd_lookup_light(): switch to fdget^W^Waway from fget_light (Miklos Szeredi) [2032478] {CVE-2021-4083}
- fs: __fget_light() can use __fget() in slow path (Miklos Szeredi) [2032478] {CVE-2021-4083}
- fs: factor out common code in fget_light() and fget_raw_light() (Miklos Szeredi) [2032478] {CVE-2021-4083}
- fs: factor out common code in fget() and fget_raw() (Miklos Szeredi) [2032478] {CVE-2021-4083}
- introduce __fcheck_files() to fix rcu_dereference_check_fdtable(), kill rcu_my_thread_group_empty() (Miklos Szeredi) [2032478] {CVE-2021-4083}


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Oracle7: ELSA-2022-1198: kernel Important Security Update

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

[3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.OL7] - Update Oracle Linux certificates (Ilya Okomin) - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was compiled into kernel (olkmod_signing_key.x509)(alexey.petrenko@oracle.com) - Update x509.genkey [Orabug: 24817676] - Conflict with shim-ia32 and shim-x64 <= 15-2.0.9.el7 - Update oracle(kernel-sig-key) value to match new certificate (Ilya Okomin) [3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7] - cifs: fix handling of DFS links where we can not access all components (Ronnie Sahlberg) [1937304] - redhat: kernel.spec: install new kernel boot entry in posttrans, not post (Denys Vlasenko) [1893756] - [s390] s390/cpumf: Support for CPU Measurement Facility CSVN 7 (Mete Durlu) [2048920] - dm table: fix iterate_devices based device capability checks (Mike Snitzer) [2054743] - buffer: eliminate the need to call free_more_memory() in __getblk_slow() (Carlos Maiolino) [2030609] - buffer: grow_dev_page() should use __GFP_NOFAIL for all cases (Carlos Maiolino) [2030609] - buffer: have alloc_page_bu...

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SRPMs

https://oss.oracle.com:443/ol7/SRPMS-updates/kernel-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.src.rpm

x86_64

bpftool-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.noarch.rpm kernel-debug-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-doc-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64.rpm

aarch64

i386

Severity
Related CVEs: CVE-2021-4028 CVE-2021-4083

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