New Ksplice updates for UEKR6 5.4.17 on Oracle Linux 7 and 8 has been released.

El-errata: New Ksplice updates for UEKR6 5.4.17 on OL7 and OL8 (CVE-2022-4378)

Synopsis: CVE-2022-4378 can now be patched using Ksplice.

Users with Oracle Linux Premier Support can now use Ksplice to patch against CVE-2022-4378.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack running UEKR6 5.4.17 on OL7 and OL8 install these updates.

On systems that have "autoinstall = yes" in /etc/uptrack/uptrack.conf, these updates will be installed automatically and you do not need to take any action.

Alternatively, you can install these updates by running:

# /usr/sbin/uptrack-upgrade -y

DESCRIPTION

* CVE-2022-4378: Privilege escalation in the proc filesystem.
Incorrect bounds checking and an integer overflow in the proc filesystem could lead to out-of-bounds memory writes. An unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial-of-service or elevate privileges.

SUPPORT

Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support_ww@oracle.com.
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