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

El-errata: ELSA-2022-9425 Important: Oracle Linux 8 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2022-9425

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-9425.html

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

x86_64:
kernel-uek-5.4.17-2136.307.3.4.el8uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-5.4.17-2136.307.3.4.el8uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-5.4.17-2136.307.3.4.el8uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-5.4.17-2136.307.3.4.el8uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-5.4.17-2136.307.3.4.el8uek.noarch.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-5.4.17-2136.307.3.4.el8uek.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2022-1786
CVE-2022-21499



Description of changes:

[5.4.17-2136.307.3.4.el8uek]
- io_uring: always use original task when preparing req identity (Jens Axboe) [Orabug: 34186552] {CVE-2022-1786}

[5.4.17-2136.307.3.3.el8uek]
- debug: Lock down kgdb (Stephen Brennan) [Orabug: 34152699] {CVE-2022-21499}

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