[El-errata] ELSA-2019-3836 Important: Oracle Linux 6 kernel security and bug fix update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2019-3836

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2019-3836.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
kernel-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.i686.rpm
perf-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.i686.rpm
python-perf-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
perf-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.6.32-754.24.2.el6.OL6]
- Update genkey [bug 25599697]

[2.6.32-754.24.2.el6]
- [documentation] Documentation: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT documentation (Paolo 
Bonzini) [1692385] {CVE-2018-12207}
- [kvm] KVM: introduce no_huge_pages module parameter (Paolo Bonzini) 
[1692385] {CVE-2018-12207}
- [x86] x86: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT bug infrastructure (Paolo Bonzini) 
[1692385] {CVE-2018-12207}
- [x86] x86/spec_ctrl/taa: Enable TAA status change after late microcode 
(Waiman Long) [1766531] {CVE-2019-11135}
- [documentation] x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async 
Abort (Waiman Long) [1766531] {CVE-2019-11135}
- [base] x86/speculation/taa: Add sysfs reporting for TSX Async Abort 
(Waiman Long) [1766531] {CVE-2019-11135}
- [x86] x86/speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort (Waiman 
Long) [1766531] {CVE-2019-11135}
- [x86] x86/cpu: Add a helper function x86_read_arch_cap_msr() (Waiman 
Long) [1766531] {CVE-2019-11135}
- [x86] x86/msr: Add the IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR (Waiman Long) [1766531] 
{CVE-2019-11135}
- [drm] drm/i915: Lower RM timeout to avoid DSI hard hangs (Dave Airlie) 
[1756824] {CVE-2019-0154}
- [drm] drm/i915/gen8+: Add RC6 CTX corruption WA (Dave Airlie) 
[1756824] {CVE-2019-0154}
- [drm] drm/i915/cmdparser: Ignore Length operands during command 
matching (Dave Airlie) [1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}
- [drm] drm/i915/cmdparser: Add support for backward jumps (Dave Airlie) 
[1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}
- [drm] drm/i915: Add gen9 BCS cmdparsing (Dave Airlie) [1756891] 
{CVE-2019-0155}
- [drm] drm/i915: Allow parsing of unsized batches (Dave Airlie) 
[1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}
- [drm] drm/i915: Support ro ppgtt mapped cmdparser shadow buffers (Dave 
Airlie) [1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}
- [drm] drm/i915: Add support for mandatory cmdparsing (Dave Airlie) 
[1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}
- [drm] drm/i915: Remove Master tables from cmdparser (Dave Airlie) 
[1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}
- [drm] drm/i915: Disable Secure Batches for gen6+ (Dave Airlie) 
[1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}
- [drm] drm/i915: Rename gen7 cmdparser tables (Dave Airlie) [1756891] 
{CVE-2019-0155}
- [drm] drm/i915/gtt: Disable read-only support under GVT (Dave Airlie) 
[1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}
- [drm] erm/i915/gtt: Read-only pages for insert_entries on bdw+ (Dave 
Airlie) [1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}
- [drm] drm/i915/gtt: Add read only pages to gen8_pte_encode (Dave 
Airlie) [1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}

[2.6.32-754.24.1.el6]
- [net] ip: Don't leak head fragment on queue timeout (Stefano Brivio) 
[1752536]
- [vhost] vhost_net: fix possible infinite loop (Eugenio Perez) [1702941]
- [vhost] vhost: introduce vhost_exceeds_weight() (Eugenio Perez) [1702941]
- [vhost] vhost_net: introduce vhost_exceeds_weight() (Eugenio Perez) 
[1702941]
- [vhost] vhost_net: use packet weight for rx handler, too (Eugenio 
Perez) [1702941]
- [vhost] vhost-net: set packet weight of tx polling to 2 * vq size 
(Eugenio Perez) [1702941]
- [x86] x86/pti: Fix incorrect global bit setting with PTI on (Waiman 
Long) [1645724]
- [x86] spec_ctrl: disable IBRS in idle, part 2 (Rafael Aquini) [1560787]