[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]