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

El-errata: ELSA-2022-10071 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2022-10071

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-10071.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12-124.69.5.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-124.69.5.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.69.5.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12-124.69.5.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12-124.69.5.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12-124.69.5.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm


Related CVEs:

CVE-2022-4378



Description of changes:

[4.1.12-124.69.5.1.el6uek]
- proc: proc_skip_spaces() shouldn't think it is working on C strings (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 34883048] {CVE-2022-4378}
- proc: avoid integer type confusion in get_proc_long (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 34883048] {CVE-2022-4378}

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