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

El-errata: ELSA-2022-5819 Important: Oracle Linux 8 kernel security and bug fix update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2022-5819

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-5819.html

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

x86_64:
bpftool-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.noarch.rpm
kernel-core-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
perf-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
bpftool-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
perf-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/kernel-4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2022-1012
CVE-2022-32250



Description of changes:

[4.18.0-372.19.1.0.1.el8_6.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 timeout (Florian Westphal) [2104002 2088234]
- netfilter: conntrack: initialize ct->timeout (Florian Westphal) [2104002 2088234]
- net/sched: act_police: more accurate MTU policing (Davide Caratti) [2102333 2100893]
- bpf: Fix request_sock leak in sk lookup helpers (Antoine Tenart) [2104670 2085313]

[4.18.0-372.18.1.el8_6]
- redhat: flesh out rpminspect config file (Jarod Wilson)
- powerpc/pseries/ddw: Revert "Extend upper limit for huge DMA window for persistent memory" (Steve Best) [2100150 2056080]
- vdpa: mlx5: synchronize driver status with CVQ (Jason Wang) [2093416 2048009]
- vdpa: mlx5: prevent cvq work from hogging CPU (Jason Wang) [2093416 2048009]
- vdpa/mlx5: Avoid processing works if workqueue was destroyed (Cindy Lu) [2093416 2048009]
- cifs: fix potential double free during failed mount (Ronnie Sahlberg) [2102251 2088799]

[4.18.0-372.17.1.el8_6]
- tcp: drop the hash_32() part from the index calculation (Guillaume Nault) [2087130 2064876] {CVE-2022-1012}
- tcp: increase source port perturb table to 2^16 (Guillaume Nault) [2087130 2064876] {CVE-2022-1012}
- tcp: dynamically allocate the perturb table used by source ports (Guillaume Nault) [2087130 2064876] {CVE-2022-1012}
- tcp: add small random increments to the source port (Guillaume Nault) [2087130 2064876] {CVE-2022-1012}
- tcp: resalt the secret every 10 seconds (Guillaume Nault) [2087130 2064876] {CVE-2022-1012}
- tcp: use different parts of the port_offset for index and offset (Guillaume Nault) [2087130 2064876] {CVE-2022-1012}
- secure_seq: use the 64 bits of the siphash for port offset calculation (Guillaume Nault) [2087130 2064876] {CVE-2022-1012}
- tcp: add some entropy in __inet_hash_connect() (Guillaume Nault) [2087130 2064876] {CVE-2022-1012}
- tcp: change source port randomizarion at connect() time (Guillaume Nault) [2087130 2064876] {CVE-2022-1012}
- hrtimer: Unbreak hrtimer_force_reprogram() (Fernando Pacheco) [2090484 2071776]
- hrtimer: Use raw_cpu_ptr() in clock_was_set() (Fernando Pacheco) [2090484 2071776]
- hrtimer: Avoid more SMP function calls in clock_was_set() (Fernando Pacheco) [2090484 2071776]
- hrtimer: Avoid unnecessary SMP function calls in clock_was_set() (Fernando Pacheco) [2090484 2071776]
- hrtimer: Add bases argument to clock_was_set() (Fernando Pacheco) [2090484 2071776]
- time/timekeeping: Avoid invoking clock_was_set() twice (Fernando Pacheco) [2090484 2071776]
- timekeeping: Distangle resume and clock-was-set events (Fernando Pacheco) [2090484 2071776]
- timerfd: Provide timerfd_resume() (Fernando Pacheco) [2090484 2071776]
- hrtimer: Force clock_was_set() handling for the HIGHRES=n, NOHZ=y case (Fernando Pacheco) [2090484 2071776]
- hrtimer: Ensure timerfd notification for HIGHRES=n (Fernando Pacheco) [2090484 2071776]
- hrtimer: Consolidate reprogramming code (Fernando Pacheco) [2090484 2071776]
- hrtimer: Avoid double reprogramming in __hrtimer_start_range_ns() (Fernando Pacheco) [2090484 2071776]
- hrtimer: Update softirq_expires_next correctly after __hrtimer_get_next_event() (Fernando Pacheco) [2090484 2071776]
- hrtimer: Annotate lockless access to timer->state (Fernando Pacheco) [2090484 2071776]
- mm, compaction: fast_find_migrateblock() should return pfn in the target zone (Rafael Aquini) [2100529 2067130]
- lib/sbitmap: fix sb->map leak (Ming Lei) [2100254 2093549]
- scsi: core: Fix sbitmap depth in scsi_realloc_sdev_budget_map() (Ewan D. Milne) [2100254 2071831]
- lib/sbitmap: allocate sb->map via kvzalloc_node (Ewan D. Milne) [2100254 2071831]
- mm: move kvmalloc-related functions to slab.h (Ewan D. Milne) [2100254 2071831]
- scsi: core: Reallocate device's budget map on queue depth change (Ewan D. Milne) [2100254 2071831]
- scsi: core: Fix scsi_device_max_queue_depth() (Ewan D. Milne) [2100254 2071831]
- netfilter: nf_tables: disallow non-stateful expression in sets earlier (Phil Sutter) [2092986 2092987] {CVE-2022-32250}
- audit: improve audit queue handling when "audit=1" on cmdline (Richard Guy Briggs) [2095434 2035123]
- audit: improve robustness of the audit queue handling (Richard Guy Briggs) [2095434 2035123]

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