An unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update has been released for Oracle Linux 7.

El-errata: ELSA-2022-9264 Important: Oracle Linux 7 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2022-9264

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-9264.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kernel-uek-5.4.17-2136.305.5.5.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-5.4.17-2136.305.5.5.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-5.4.17-2136.305.5.5.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-5.4.17-2136.305.5.5.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-5.4.17-2136.305.5.5.el7uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-tools-5.4.17-2136.305.5.5.el7uek.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
kernel-uek-5.4.17-2136.305.5.5.el7uek.aarch64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-5.4.17-2136.305.5.5.el7uek.aarch64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-5.4.17-2136.305.5.5.el7uek.aarch64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-5.4.17-2136.305.5.5.el7uek.aarch64.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-5.4.17-2136.305.5.5.el7uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-tools-5.4.17-2136.305.5.5.el7uek.aarch64.rpm
kernel-uek-tools-libs-5.4.17-2136.305.5.5.el7uek.aarch64.rpm
perf-5.4.17-2136.305.5.5.el7uek.aarch64.rpm
python-perf-5.4.17-2136.305.5.5.el7uek.aarch64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-5.4.17-2136.305.5.5.el7uek.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2022-1158



Description of changes:

[5.4.17-2136.305.5.5.el7uek]
- KVM: x86/mmu: do compare-and-exchange of gPTE via the user address (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 34034594] {CVE-2022-1158}

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