An Oracle Linux Cloud Native Environment 1.1 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container security update has been released.

El-errata: ELSA-2022-9201 Important: Oracle Linux Cloud Native Environment 1.1 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container security update

Oracle Linux Cloud Native Environment Security Advisory ELSA-2022-9201

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-9201.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux Cloud Native Environment 1.1 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kernel-uek-container-4.14.35-2047.511.5.4.el7.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-container-4.14.35-2047.511.5.4.el7.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2021-26341



Description of changes:

- 4.14.35-2047.511.5.4.el7
- x86/speculation: Add knob for eibrs_retpoline_enabled (Patrick Colp) [Orabug: 33922122] {CVE-2021-26341}
- x86/speculation: Extend our code to properly support eibrs+lfence and eibrs+retpoline (Patrick Colp) [Orabug: 33922122] {CVE-2021-26341}
- x86/speculation: Update link to AMD speculation whitepaper (Kim Phillips) [Orabug: 33922122] {CVE-2021-26341}
- x86/speculation: Use generic retpoline by default on AMD (Kim Phillips) [Orabug: 33922122] {CVE-2021-26341}
- x86/speculation: Include unprivileged eBPF status in Spectre v2 mitigation reporting (Josh Poimboeuf) [Orabug: 33922122] {CVE-2021-26341}
- Documentation/hw-vuln: Update spectre doc (Peter Zijlstra) [Orabug: 33922122] {CVE-2021-26341}
- x86/speculation: Add eIBRS + Retpoline options (Peter Zijlstra) [Orabug: 33922122] {CVE-2021-26341}
- x86/speculation: Rename RETPOLINE_AMD to RETPOLINE_LFENCE (Peter Zijlstra (Intel)) [Orabug: 33922122] {CVE-2021-26341}
- x86/speculation: Merge one test in spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation() (Borislav Petkov) [Orabug: 33922122] {CVE-2021-26341}
- x86/speculation: Update ALTERNATIVEs to (more closely) match upstream (Patrick Colp) [Orabug: 33922122] {CVE-2021-26341}
- x86/speculation: Fix bug in retpoline mode on AMD with `spectre_v2=none` (Patrick Colp) [Orabug: 33922122] {CVE-2021-26341}
- bpf: Add kconfig knob for disabling unpriv bpf by default (Daniel Borkmann) [Orabug: 33926438]

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