A kernel security and bug fix update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.

ELSA-2023-3349 Important: Oracle Linux 8 kernel security and bug fix update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2023-3349

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2023-3349.html

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

x86_64:
bpftool-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.noarch.rpm
kernel-core-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
perf-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
bpftool-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm
perf-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates//kernel-4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2023-32233

Description of changes:

[4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.OL8]
- Update Oracle Linux certificates (Kevin Lyons)
- Disable signing for aarch64 (Ilya Okomin)
- Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was added to the kernel trusted keys list (olkmod_signing_key.pem) [Orabug: 29539237]
- Update x509.genkey [Orabug: 24817676]
- Conflict with shim-ia32 and shim-x64 stopped handling (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [2183471 2152168]
- migrate: grab the compound head in migration_entry_wait_on_locked (Nico Pache) [2189629 2188249]
- redhat/configs: Fix DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP and BFQ_CGROUP_DEBUG configs (Vladis Dronov)
- redhat: switch release to zstream (Lucas Zampieri)

[4.18.0-477.11.1.el8_8]
- crypto: drbg - Only fail when jent is unavailable in FIPS mode (Vladis Dronov) [2181730 2175712]
- crypto: jitter - permanent and intermittent health errors (Vladis Dronov) [2181730 2175712]
- crypto: jitter - quit sample collection loop upon RCT failure (Vladis Dronov) [2181730 2175712]
- crypto: jitter - don't limit ->health_failure check to FIPS mode (Vladis Dronov) [2181730 2175712]
- crypto: jitter - drop kernel-doc notation (Vladis Dronov) [2181730 2175712]
- qede: avoid uninitialized entries in coal_entry array (Michal Schmidt) [2176104 2160054]
- qede: fix interrupt coalescing configuration (Jonathan Toppins) [2176104 2160054]
- crypto: qat - add support for 402xx devices (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- crypto: qat - drop log level of msg in get_instance_node() (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- crypto: qat - fix out-of-bounds read (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- Documentation: qat: change kernel version (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- crypto: qat - add qat_zlib_deflate (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- crypto: qat - extend buffer list logic interface (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- crypto: qat - fix spelling mistakes from 'bufer' to 'buffer' (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- crypto: qat - add resubmit logic for decompression (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- crypto: acomp - define max size for destination (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- crypto: qat - enable deflate for QAT GEN4 (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- crypto: qat - expose deflate through acomp api for QAT GEN2 (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- crypto: qat - rename and relocate GEN2 config function (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- crypto: qat - relocate qat_algs_alloc_flags() (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- crypto: qat - relocate backlog related structures (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- crypto: qat - extend buffer list interface (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- crypto: qat - generalize crypto request buffers (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- crypto: qat - change bufferlist logic interface (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- crypto: qat - rename bufferlist functions (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- crypto: qat - relocate bufferlist logic (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- crypto: qat - Use helper to set reqsize (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- crypto: kpp - Add helper to set reqsize (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- crypto: qat - fix error return code in adf_probe (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- crypto: qat - remove ADF_STATUS_PF_RUNNING flag from probe (Vladis Dronov) [2176850 2144529]
- sched/core: Fix arch_scale_freq_tick() on tickless systems (Phil Auld) [2188067 2184083]