A kernel security and bug fix update has been released for Oracle Linux 7.

El-errata: ELSA-2023-0399 Important: Oracle Linux 7 kernel security and bug fix update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2023-0399

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2023-0399.html

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

x86_64:
bpftool-3.10.0-1160.83.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-3.10.0-1160.83.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-1160.83.1.0.1.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-1160.83.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-1160.83.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-1160.83.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-3.10.0-1160.83.1.0.1.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-1160.83.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-1160.83.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-1160.83.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-1160.83.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-3.10.0-1160.83.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-1160.83.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates//kernel-3.10.0-1160.83.1.0.1.el7.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2021-26401
CVE-2022-2964



Description of changes:

[3.10.0-1160.83.1.0.1.el7.OL7]
- debug: lock down kgdb [Orabug: 34270798] {CVE-2022-21499}

[3.10.0-1160.83.1.el7.OL7]
- Update Oracle Linux certificates (Ilya Okomin)
- Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was compiled into kernel (olkmod_signing_key.x509)(alexey.petrenko@oracle.com)
- Update x509.genkey [Orabug: 24817676]
- Conflict with shim-ia32 and shim-x64 last_reset with stale value if EH does not run (Ewan D. Milne) [2128337]
- [netdrv] i40e: Fix freeing of uninitialized misc IRQ vector (Jamie Bainbridge) [2129248]
- x86/speculation: Use generic retpoline by default on AMD (Rafael Aquini) [2062165] {CVE-2021-26401}

[3.10.0-1160.82.1.el7]
- net: usb: ax88179_178a: Fix packet receiving (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [2120504] {CVE-2022-2964}
- net: usb: ax88179_178a: Fix out-of-bounds accesses in RX fixup (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [2120504] {CVE-2022-2964}
- net: usb: Merge cpu_to_le32s + memcpy to put_unaligned_le32 (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [2120504] {CVE-2022-2964}
- ax88179_178a: Merge memcpy + le32_to_cpus to get_unaligned_le32 (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [2120504] {CVE-2022-2964}
- net: usb: ax88179_178a: fix packet alignment padding (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [2120504] {CVE-2022-2964}
- mm: swap: disable swap_vma_readahead for PPC64 (Rafael Aquini) [2142455]

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