[El-errata] ELSA-2020-5926 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2020-5926

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-5926.html

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

x86_64:
kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12-124.45.2.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-124.45.2.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.45.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12-124.45.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12-124.45.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12-124.45.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.45.2.el6uek.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[4.1.12-124.45.2.el6uek]
- powercap: restrict energy meter to root access (Kanth Ghatraju) 
[Orabug: 32137965] {CVE-2020-8694} {CVE-2020-8695}

[4.1.12-124.45.1.el6uek]
- Revert "x86/efi: Initialize and display UEFI secure boot state a bit 
later during init" (Eric Snowberg) [Orabug: 31887248] - xfs: fix 
xfs_inode use after free (Wengang Wang) [Orabug: 31932452] - SUNRPC: 
ECONNREFUSED should cause a rebind. (NeilBrown) [Orabug: 32070175] - 
netfilter: nfnetlink: correctly validate length of batch messages (Phil 
Turnbull) [Orabug: 30658635] {CVE-2016-7917}
- xc2028: Fix use-after-free bug properly (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 
30658659] {CVE-2016-7913}
- [media] xc2028: avoid use after free (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [Orabug: 
30658659] {CVE-2016-7913}
- uek-rpm: Create initramfs at postinstall stage also. (Somasundaram 
Krishnasamy) [Orabug: 30821411] - hdlc_ppp: add range checks in 
ppp_cp_parse_cr() (Dan Carpenter) [Orabug: 31989190] {CVE-2020-25643}
- tracing: Reverse the order of trace_types_lock and event_mutex (Alan 
Maguire) [Orabug: 32002706] - ocfs2/dlm: move lock to the tail of grant 
queue while doing in-place convert (xuejiufei) [Orabug: 32071234]