An unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container security update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.

El-errata: ELSA-2022-9212 Important: Oracle Linux 8 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2022-9212

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-9212.html

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

x86_64:
kernel-uek-container-5.4.17-2136.304.4.5.el8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-container-debug-5.4.17-2136.304.4.5.el8.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-container-5.4.17-2136.304.4.5.el8.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2022-0847



Description of changes:

[5.4.17-2136.304.4.5.el8]
- lib/iov_iter: initialize "flags" in new pipe_buffer (Max Kellermann) [Orabug: 33942329] {CVE-2022-0847}
- bpf: Disallow unprivileged bpf by default (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 33942374]

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