An unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.

ELSA-2023-12825 Important: Oracle Linux 8 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2023-12825

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2023-12825.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kernel-uek-5.4.17-2136.323.8.2.el8uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-5.4.17-2136.323.8.2.el8uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-5.4.17-2136.323.8.2.el8uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-5.4.17-2136.323.8.2.el8uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-5.4.17-2136.323.8.2.el8uek.noarch.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates//kernel-uek-5.4.17-2136.323.8.2.el8uek.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2023-42753

Description of changes:

[5.4.17-2136.323.8.2.el8uek]
- netfilter: nfnetlink_osf: avoid OOB read (Wander Lairson Costa) [Orabug: 35824307]
- netfilter: xt_sctp: validate the flag_info count (Wander Lairson Costa) [Orabug: 35824307]
- netfilter: xt_u32: validate user space input (Wander Lairson Costa) [Orabug: 35824307]
- netfilter: ipset: add the missing IP_SET_HASH_WITH_NET0 macro for ip_set_hash_netportnet.c (Kyle Zeng) [Orabug: 35824307] {CVE-2023-42753}