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

ELSA-2023-12565 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2023-12565

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2023-12565.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-4.1.12-124.76.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12-124.76.2.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-124.76.2.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12-124.76.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12-124.76.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12-124.76.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2023-3159
CVE-2022-1679
CVE-2023-2269
CVE-2023-1118
CVE-2022-3424
CVE-2023-34256
CVE-2022-20141

Description of changes:

[4.1.12-124.76.2.el6uek]
- firewire: fix potential uaf in outbound_phy_packet_callback() (Chengfeng Ye) [Orabug: 35493606] {CVE-2023-3159}
- ath9k: fix use-after-free in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb (Pavel Skripkin) [Orabug: 35448003] {CVE-2022-1679}
- dm ioctl: fix nested locking in table_clear() to remove deadlock concern (Mike Snitzer) [Orabug: 35354880] {CVE-2023-2269}
- media: rc: Fix use-after-free bugs caused by ene_tx_irqsim() (Duoming Zhou) [Orabug: 35181652] {CVE-2023-1118}
- misc: sgi-gru: fix use-after-free error in gru_set_context_option, gru_fault and gru_handle_user_call_os (Zheng Wang) [Orabug: 35180779] {CVE-2022-3424}

[4.1.12-124.76.1.el6uek]
- ext4: avoid a potential slab-out-of-bounds in ext4_group_desc_csum (Tudor Ambarus) [Orabug: 35457204] {CVE-2023-34256}
- igmp: Add ip_mc_list lock in ip_check_mc_rcu (Liu Jian) [Orabug: 35448048] {CVE-2022-20141}