An unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update has been released for Oracle Linux 6.

El-errata: ELSA-2020-5912 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2020-5912

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-5912.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 have been uploaded to the
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12-124.44.4.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-124.44.4.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.44.4.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12-124.44.4.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12-124.44.4.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12-124.44.4.el6uek.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.44.4.el6uek.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[4.1.12-124.44.4.el6uek]
- scsi: qla2xxx: Fix NULL pointer crash due to active timer for ABTS (himanshu.madhani@cavium.com) [Orabug: 32020790]

[4.1.12-124.44.3.el6uek]
- qed: Reduce verbosity of unimplemented MFW messages (Mintz, Yuval) [Orabug: 31959299]
- kexec: validate pe files against the system_blacklist_keyring (Eric Snowberg) [Orabug: 31961119] {CVE-2020-26541}

[4.1.12-124.44.2.el6uek]
- usb: cdc-acm: make sure a refcount is taken early enough (Oliver Neukum) [Orabug: 31351088] {CVE-2019-19530}
- net/rds: migration of a delayed initialized port present in down state (Praveen Kumar Kannoju) [Orabug: 31729995]
- net: add high_order_alloc_disable sysctl (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 31835223]
- mm, page_alloc: double zone's batchsize (Aaron Lu) [Orabug: 31835223]
- mm/free_pcppages_bulk: prefetch buddy while not holding lock (Aruna Ramakrishna) [Orabug: 31835223]
- mm/free_pcppages_bulk: do not hold lock when picking pages to free (Aruna Ramakrishna) [Orabug: 31835223]
- mm, page_alloc: remove unnecessary variable from free_pcppages_bulk (Mel Gorman) [Orabug: 31835223]
- netfilter: ctnetlink: add a range check for l3/l4 protonum (Will McVicker) [Orabug: 31872865] {CVE-2020-25211}
- net/rds: Extract dest qp num for displaying in rds-info (Praveen Kumar Kannoju) [Orabug: 31880144]
- uek-rpm: Update secure boot UEK signing certificates (Brian Maly) [Orabug: 31974559]

[4.1.12-124.44.1.el6uek]
- oracleasm: Retrieve d_bdev before dropping inode (Stephen Brennan) [Orabug: 31832592]
- KVM: VMX: fixes for vmentry_l1d_flush module parameter (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 31962487]