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

El-errata: ELSA-2023-12232 Important: Oracle Linux 7 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2023-12232

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2023-12232.html

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

x86_64:
kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12-124.73.2.el7uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-124.73.2.el7uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.73.2.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12-124.73.2.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12-124.73.2.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12-124.73.2.el7uek.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates//kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.73.2.el7uek.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2023-0394
CVE-2019-5489
CVE-2020-0404
CVE-2023-1073
CVE-2023-1074
CVE-2023-1095



Description of changes:

[4.1.12-124.73.2.el7uek]
- netfilter: nf_tables: fix null deref due to zeroed list head (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 35181628] {CVE-2023-1095}
- sctp: fail if no bound addresses can be used for a given scope (Marcelo Ricardo Leitner) [Orabug: 35181461] {CVE-2023-1074}
- HID: check empty report_list in hid_validate_values() (Pietro Borrello) [Orabug: 35181168] {CVE-2023-1073}
- media: uvcvideo: Avoid cyclic entity chains due to malformed USB descriptors (Will Deacon) [Orabug: 35180270] {CVE-2020-0404}

[4.1.12-124.73.1.el7uek]
- mm/mincore.c: make mincore() more conservative (Jiri Kosina) [Orabug: 35133279] {CVE-2019-5489}
- mm: introduce vma_is_anonymous(vma) helper (Oleg Nesterov) [Orabug: 35133279]
- Revert "Change mincore() to count "mapped" pages rather than "cached" pages" (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 35124616]
- ipv6: raw: Deduct extension header length in rawv6_push_pending_frames (Herbert Xu) [Orabug: 35005831] {CVE-2023-0394}

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