An unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update has been released for Oracle Linux 6.

El-errata: ELSA-2022-9969 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2022-9969

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-9969.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12-124.68.3.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-124.68.3.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.68.3.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12-124.68.3.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12-124.68.3.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12-124.68.3.el6uek.x86_64.rpm


Related CVEs:

CVE-2015-1350
CVE-2017-13166
CVE-2020-10690
CVE-2020-12654
CVE-2020-12655
CVE-2021-42739
CVE-2022-3239
CVE-2022-36946



Description of changes:

[4.1.12-124.68.3.el6uek]
- Orabug: 34733462 (Alok Tiwari)

[4.1.12-124.68.2.el6uek]
- ptp: fix the race between the release of ptp_clock and cdev (Vladis Dronov) [Orabug: 31350707] {CVE-2020-10690}
- ptp: Fix pass zero to ERR_PTR() in ptp_clock_register (YueHaibing) [Orabug: 31350707]
- chardev: add helper function to register char devs with a struct device (Logan Gunthorpe) [Orabug: 31350707]
- ptp: create "pins" together with the rest of attributes (Dmitry Torokhov) [Orabug: 31350707]
- ptp: use is_visible method to hide unused attributes (Dmitry Torokhov) [Orabug: 31350707]
- ptp: do not explicitly set drvdata in ptp_clock_register() (Dmitry Torokhov) [Orabug: 31350707]
- xfs: add agf freeblocks verify in xfs_agf_verify (Zheng Bin) [Orabug: 31350923] {CVE-2020-12655}
- netfilter: nf_queue: do not allow packet truncation below transport header offset (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 34475433] {CVE-2022-36946}
- media: em28xx: initialize refcount before kref_get (Dongliang Mu) [Orabug: 34619522] {CVE-2022-3239}

[4.1.12-124.68.1.el6uek]
- fs: Avoid premature clearing of capabilities (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 20429825] {CVE-2015-1350}
- fs: Give dentry to inode_change_ok() instead of inode (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 20429825] {CVE-2015-1350}
- nfsd: Disable NFSv2 timestamp workaround for NFSv3+ (Andreas Gruenbacher) [Orabug: 20429825] {CVE-2015-1350}
- fuse: Propagate dentry down to inode_change_ok() (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 20429825] {CVE-2015-1350}
- xfs: Propagate dentry down to inode_change_ok() (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 20429825] {CVE-2015-1350}
- media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: refactor compat ioctl32 logic (Daniel Mentz) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
- media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: don't copy back the result for certain errors (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
- media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: drop pr_info for unknown buffer type (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
- media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: copy clip list in put_v4l2_window32 (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
- media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32: Copy v4l2_window->global_alpha (Daniel Mentz) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
- media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: make ctrl_is_pointer work for subdevs (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
- media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: fix ctrl_is_pointer (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
- media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: copy m.userptr in put_v4l2_plane32 (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
- media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: avoid sizeof(type) (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
- media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: move 'helper' functions to __get/put_v4l2_format32 (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
- media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: fix the indentation (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
- media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: add missing VIDIOC_PREPARE_BUF (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
- media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32: Fix timespec conversion (Daniel Mentz) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
- media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32: fix missing reserved field copy in put_v4l2_create32 (Tiffany Lin) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
- media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32: fix missing length copy in put_v4l2_buffer32 (Tiffany Lin) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
- mwifiex: Fix possible buffer overflows in mwifiex_ret_wmm_get_status() (Qing Xu) [Orabug: 31350517] {CVE-2020-12654}
- media: firewire: firedtv-avc: fix a buffer overflow in avc_ca_pmt() (Dan Carpenter) [Orabug: 33488041] {CVE-2021-42739}

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