A cloud-init security update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.

El-errata: ELSA-2021-3081 Moderate: Oracle Linux 8 cloud-init security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2021-3081

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2021-3081.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
cloud-init-20.3-10.0.1.el8_4.5.noarch.rpm

aarch64:
cloud-init-20.3-10.0.1.el8_4.5.noarch.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/cloud-init-20.3-10.0.1.el8_4.5.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2021-3429



Description of changes:

[20.3-10.0.1]
- Added missing services in rhel/systemd/cloud-init.service [Orabug: 32183938]
- Added missing services in cloud-init.service.tmpl for sshd [Orabug: 32183938]
- Forward port applicable cloud-init 18.4-2.0.3 changes to cloud-init-18-5 [Orabug: 30435672]
- limit permissions [Orabug: 31352433]
- Changes to ignore all enslaved interfaces [Orabug: 30092148]
- Fix swap file size allocation logic to allocate maxsize [Orabug: 29952349]
- Make Oracle datasource detect dracut based config files [Orabug: 29956753]
- add modified version of enable-ec2_utils-to-stop-retrying-to-get-ec2-metadata.patch:
1. Enable ec2_utils.py having a way to stop retrying to get ec2 metadata
2. Apply stop retrying to get ec2 metadata to helper/openstack.py MetadataReader
Resolves: Oracle-Bug:41660 (Bugzilla)
- added OL to list of known distros

[20.3-10.el8_4.5]
- ci-write-passwords-only-to-serial-console-lock-down-clo.patch [bz#1979252]
- Resolves: bz#1979252
(CVE-2021-3429 cloud-init: randomly generated passwords logged in clear-text to world-readable file [rhel-8] [rhel-8.4.0.z])

[20.3-10.el8_4.4]
- ci-rhel-cloud.cfg-remove-ssh_genkeytypes-in-settings.py.patch [bz#1963981]
- ci-cloud-init.spec.template-update-systemd_postun-param.patch [bz#1967600]
- Resolves: bz#1963981
([cloud-init] From RHEL 82+ cloud-init no longer displays sshd keys fingerprints from instance launched from a backup image [rhel-8.4.0.z])
- Resolves: bz#1967600
(cloud-init brew build fails on Fedora 33 [rhel-8.4.0.z])