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

ELSA-2023-12759 Important: Oracle Linux 7 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2023-12759

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2023-12759.html

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

x86_64:
kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12-124.78.2.el7uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-124.78.2.el7uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.78.2.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12-124.78.2.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12-124.78.2.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12-124.78.2.el7uek.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates//kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.78.2.el7uek.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2022-1015
CVE-2023-3106
CVE-2023-3567

Description of changes:

[4.1.12-124.78.2.el7uek]
- xfrm: fix crash in XFRM_MSG_GETSA netlink handler (Vegard Nossum) [Orabug: 35598955] {CVE-2023-3106}
- netfilter: nf_tables: validate registers coming from userspace (Harshvardhan Jha) [Orabug: 34012909] {CVE-2022-1015}

[4.1.12-124.78.1.el7uek]
- vc_screen: move load of struct vc_data pointer in vcs_read() to avoid UAF (George Kennedy) [Orabug: 35649493] {CVE-2023-3567}