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

El-errata: ELSA-2023-1091 Important: Oracle Linux 7 kernel security and bug fix update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2023-1091

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2023-1091.html

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

x86_64:
bpftool-3.10.0-1160.88.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-3.10.0-1160.88.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-1160.88.1.0.1.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-1160.88.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-1160.88.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-1160.88.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-3.10.0-1160.88.1.0.1.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-1160.88.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-1160.88.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-1160.88.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-1160.88.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-3.10.0-1160.88.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-1160.88.1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates//kernel-3.10.0-1160.88.1.0.1.el7.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2022-4378
CVE-2022-42703



Description of changes:

[3.10.0-1160.88.1.0.1.el7.OL7]
- debug: lock down kgdb [Orabug: 34270798] {CVE-2022-21499}

[3.10.0-1160.88.1.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 degree ambiguity leading to double-reuse (Rafael Aquini) [2138620] {CVE-2022-42703}
- mm, rmap: handle anon_vma_prepare() common case inline (Rafael Aquini) [2138620] {CVE-2022-42703}
- proc: proc_skip_spaces() shouldn't think it is working on C strings (Wander Lairson Costa) [2152565] {CVE-2022-4378}
- proc: avoid integer type confusion in get_proc_long (Wander Lairson Costa) [2152565] {CVE-2022-4378}
- scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crash due to stale SRB access around I/O timeouts (Nilesh Javali) [2092105]
- fs: move S_ISGID stripping into the vfs_*() helpers (Andrey Albershteyn) [2159946] {CVE-2018-13405 CVE-2021-4037}
- fs: Add missing umask strip in vfs_tmpfile (Andrey Albershteyn) [2159946] {CVE-2018-13405 CVE-2021-4037}
- fs: add mode_strip_sgid() helper (Andrey Albershteyn) [2159946] {CVE-2018-13405 CVE-2021-4037}

[3.10.0-1160.86.1.el7]
- openvswitch: fix OOB access in reserve_sfa_size() (Rado Vrbovsky) [2141780] {CVE-2022-2639}
- openvswitch: fix flow actions reallocation (Rado Vrbovsky) [2141780] {CVE-2022-2639}
- gitlab-ci: use CI templates from production branch (Michael Hofmann)
- mm: prevent page_frag_alloc() from corrupting the memory (Rafael Aquini) [2141062]
- mm: Use fixed constant in page_frag_alloc instead of size + 1 (Rafael Aquini) [2141062]
- mm: page_alloc: fix ref bias in page_frag_alloc() for 1-byte allocs (Rafael Aquini) [2141062]
- x86/pat: Pass valid address to sanitize_phys() (Jeff Moyer) [1974485]

[3.10.0-1160.85.1.el7]
- sctp: do asoc update earlier in sctp_sf_do_dupcook_b (Xin Long) [2054037]
- sctp: do asoc update earlier in sctp_sf_do_dupcook_a (Xin Long) [2054037]
- sctp: handle errors when updating asoc (Xin Long) [2054037]
- sctp: no need to check assoc id before calling sctp_assoc_set_id (Xin Long) [2054037]
- s390/topology: fix warning when disabling cpus (Tobias Huschle) [2071980]

[3.10.0-1160.84.1.el7]
- blk-mq: fix flush-rq race (Ming Lei) [2088029]
- scsi: target: iscsi: Fix a race condition between login_work and the login thread (Maurizio Lombardi) [2154243]

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