[El-errata] ELSA-2023-12232 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2023-12232

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2023-12232.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12-124.73.2.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-124.73.2.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.73.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12-124.73.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12-124.73.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12-124.73.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm



Related CVEs:

CVE-2023-0394
CVE-2019-5489
CVE-2020-0404
CVE-2023-1073
CVE-2023-1074
CVE-2023-1095




Description of changes:

[4.1.12-124.73.2.el6uek]
- netfilter: nf_tables: fix null deref due to zeroed list head (Florian Westphal)  [Orabug: 35181628]  {CVE-2023-1095}
- sctp: fail if no bound addresses can be used for a given scope (Marcelo Ricardo Leitner)  [Orabug: 35181461]  {CVE-2023-1074}
- HID: check empty report_list in hid_validate_values() (Pietro Borrello)  [Orabug: 35181168]  {CVE-2023-1073}
- media: uvcvideo: Avoid cyclic entity chains due to malformed USB descriptors (Will Deacon)  [Orabug: 35180270]  {CVE-2020-0404}

[4.1.12-124.73.1.el6uek]
- mm/mincore.c: make mincore() more conservative (Jiri Kosina)  [Orabug: 35133279]  {CVE-2019-5489}
- mm: introduce vma_is_anonymous(vma) helper (Oleg Nesterov)  [Orabug: 35133279]
- Revert "Change mincore() to count "mapped" pages rather than "cached" pages" (Linus Torvalds)  [Orabug: 35124616]
- ipv6: raw: Deduct extension header length in rawv6_push_pending_frames (Herbert Xu)  [Orabug: 35005831]  {CVE-2023-0394}