A kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.

El-errata: ELSA-2022-0825 Important: Oracle Linux 8 kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2022-0825

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-0825.html

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

x86_64:
bpftool-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.noarch.rpm
kernel-core-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.x86_64.rpm
perf-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.x86_64.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
bpftool-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.aarch64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.aarch64.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.aarch64.rpm
perf-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.aarch64.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.aarch64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/kernel-4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2021-0920
CVE-2021-4154
CVE-2022-0330
CVE-2022-0435
CVE-2022-0492
CVE-2022-0516
CVE-2022-0847
CVE-2022-22942



Description of changes:

[4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.OL8]
- Update Oracle Linux certificates (Kevin Lyons)
- Disable signing for aarch64 (Ilya Okomin)
- Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was added to the kernel trusted keys list (olkmod_signing_key.pem) [Orabug: 29539237]
- Update x509.genkey [Orabug: 24817676]
- Conflict with shim-ia32 and shim-x64 arch.idle_mask by vcpu_idx (Thomas Huth) [2040769 2026230]
- redhat: set LC_ALL=C before sorting config content (Frantisek Hrbata)

[4.18.0-348.13.1.el8_5]
- vfs: Out-of-bounds write of heap buffer in fs_context.c (Frantisek Hrbata) [2040585 2040586] {CVE-2022-0185}
- xfs: map unwritten blocks in XFS_IOC_{ALLOC,FREE}SP just like fallocate (Bruno Meneguele) [2034864 2034865] {CVE-2021-4155}
- af_unix: fix garbage collect vs MSG_PEEK (Patrick Talbert) [2031974 2031975] {CVE-2021-0920}
- cgroup: verify that source is a string (Waiman Long) [2034608 2034609] {CVE-2021-4154}

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