[El-errata] ELSA-2024-8162 Moderate: Oracle Linux 9 kernel security update

Mon Oct 21 21:28:33 UTC 2024

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2024-8162

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2024-8162.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 9 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
bpftool-7.3.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-stablelists-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.noarch.rpm
kernel-core-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-core-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-matched-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-core-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-extra-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-uki-virt-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-matched-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-core-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-extra-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uki-virt-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
perf-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
python3-perf-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
rtla-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
libperf-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
rv-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
bpftool-7.3.0-427.40.1.el9_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-headers-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.aarch64.rpm
perf-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.aarch64.rpm
python3-perf-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.aarch64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol9/SRPMS-updates//kernel-5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2021-47385
CVE-2023-28746
CVE-2023-52658
CVE-2024-27403
CVE-2024-35989
CVE-2024-36889
CVE-2024-36978
CVE-2024-38556
CVE-2024-39483
CVE-2024-39502
CVE-2024-40959
CVE-2024-42079
CVE-2024-42272
CVE-2024-42284

Description of changes:

[5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.OL9]
- Disable UKI signing [Orabug: 36571828]
- Update Oracle Linux certificates (Kevin Lyons)
- Disable signing for aarch64 (Ilya Okomin)
- Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was added to the kernel trusted keys list (olkmod_signing_key.pem) [Orabug: 29539237]
- Update x509.genkey [Orabug: 24817676]
- Conflict with shim-ia32 and shim-x64 <= 15.3-1.0.5]
- Remove upstream reference during boot (Kevin Lyons) [Orabug: 34729535]
- Add Oracle Linux IMA certificates

[5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4]
- gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2_log_flush (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-51561 RHEL-51559] {CVE-2024-42079}
- net: stmmac: Separate C22 and C45 transactions for xgmac (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-60274 RHEL-6297]
- dmaengine: idxd: Check for driver name match before sva user feature (Jerry Snitselaar) [RHEL-47239 RHEL-44836 RHEL-46619]
- ceph: switch to corrected encoding of max_xattr_size in mdsmap (Xiubo Li) [RHEL-57609 RHEL-26722]
- KVM: SVM: WARN on vNMI + NMI window iff NMIs are outright masked (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-46428] {CVE-2024-39483}
- vfs: don't mod negative dentry count when on shrinker list (Brian Foster) [RHEL-60567 RHEL-46609]
- fs/dcache: Re-use value stored to dentry->d_flags instead of re-reading (Brian Foster) [RHEL-60567 RHEL-46609]
- x86/bugs: Reverse instruction order of CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS (Waiman Long) [RHEL-48713 RHEL-31226] {CVE-2023-28746}
- Revert "x86/bugs: Use fixed addressing for VERW operand" (Waiman Long) [RHEL-48713 RHEL-31226] {CVE-2023-28746}
- KVM/x86: Export RFDS_NO and RFDS_CLEAR to guests (Waiman Long) [RHEL-48713 RHEL-31226] {CVE-2023-28746}
- redhat/configs: Enable x86 CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS (Waiman Long) [RHEL-48713 RHEL-31226] {CVE-2023-28746}
- x86/rfds: Mitigate Register File Data Sampling (RFDS) (Waiman Long) [RHEL-48713 RHEL-31226] {CVE-2023-28746}
- Documentation/hw-vuln: Add documentation for RFDS (Waiman Long) [RHEL-48713 RHEL-31226] {CVE-2023-28746}
- x86/mmio: Disable KVM mitigation when X86_FEATURE_CLEAR_CPU_BUF is set (Waiman Long) [RHEL-48713 RHEL-31226] {CVE-2023-28746}
- x86/bugs: Use fixed addressing for VERW operand (Waiman Long) [RHEL-48713 RHEL-31226] {CVE-2023-28746}
- KVM/VMX: Move VERW closer to VMentry for MDS mitigation (Waiman Long) [RHEL-48713 RHEL-31226] {CVE-2023-28746}
- KVM/VMX: Use BT+JNC, i.e. EFLAGS.CF to select VMRESUME vs. VMLAUNCH (Waiman Long) [RHEL-48713 RHEL-31226] {CVE-2023-28746}
- x86/bugs: Use ALTERNATIVE() instead of mds_user_clear static key (Waiman Long) [RHEL-48713 RHEL-31226] {CVE-2023-28746}
- x86/entry_32: Add VERW just before userspace transition (Waiman Long) [RHEL-48713 RHEL-31226] {CVE-2023-28746}
- x86/entry_64: Add VERW just before userspace transition (Waiman Long) [RHEL-48713 RHEL-31226] {CVE-2023-28746}
- x86/entry: Harden return-to-user (Prarit Bhargava) [RHEL-48713 RHEL-25415]
- x86/entry: Optimize common_interrupt_return() (Prarit Bhargava) [RHEL-48713 RHEL-25415]
- x86/bugs: Add asm helpers for executing VERW (Waiman Long) [RHEL-48713 RHEL-31226] {CVE-2023-28746}
- sched: act_ct: take care of padding in struct zones_ht_key (Xin Long) [RHEL-55112 RHEL-50682] {CVE-2024-42272}
- sched: act_ct: add netns into the key of tcf_ct_flow_table (Xin Long) [RHEL-55112 RHEL-28816]
- dmaengine: idxd: Fix oops during rmmod on single-CPU platforms (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-41361] {CVE-2024-35989}
- hwmon: (w83792d) Fix NULL pointer dereference by removing unnecessary structure field (Steve Best) [RHEL-42115 RHEL-37721] {CVE-2021-47385}

[5.14.0-427.39.1.el9_4]
- mptcp: ensure snd_nxt is properly initialized on connect (cki-backport-bot) [RHEL-52474 RHEL-39867] {CVE-2024-36889}
- ping: fix address binding wrt vrf (Antoine Tenart) [RHEL-57563 RHEL-50920]
- net/mlx5: Add a timeout to acquire the command queue semaphore (Benjamin Poirier) [RHEL-44227 RHEL-44225] {CVE-2024-38556}
- xfrm6: check ip6_dst_idev() return value in xfrm6_get_saddr() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-48142 RHEL-48140] {CVE-2024-40959}
- ionic: fix use after netif_napi_del() (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-47636 RHEL-47634] {CVE-2024-39502}
- ionic: clean interrupt before enabling queue to avoid credit race (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-47636 RHEL-36065]
- Revert "net/mlx5: Block entering switchdev mode with ns inconsistency" (Benjamin Poirier) [RHEL-42391 RHEL-24466] {CVE-2023-52658}
- tipc: Return non-zero value from tipc_udp_addr2str() on error (Xin Long) [RHEL-55075 RHEL-55074] {CVE-2024-42284}
- x86: set FSRS automatically on AMD CPUs that have FSRM (Prarit Bhargava) [RHEL-56970 RHEL-25415]

[5.14.0-427.38.1.el9_4]
- module: avoid allocation if module is already present and ready (Donald Dutile) [RHEL-52417]
- module: move early sanity checks into a helper (Donald Dutile) [RHEL-52417]
- module: extract patient module check into helper (Donald Dutile) [RHEL-52417]
- null_blk: Fix return value of nullb_device_power_store() (Ming Lei) [RHEL-58636 RHEL-39662]
- null_blk: fix null-ptr-dereference while configuring 'power' and 'submit_queues' (Ming Lei) [RHEL-58636 RHEL-39662]
- net: sched: sch_multiq: fix possible OOB write in multiq_tune() (cki-backport-bot) [RHEL-43472] {CVE-2024-36978}
- netfilter: nft_flow_offload: release dst in case direct xmit path is used (Florian Westphal) [RHEL-38520 RHEL-33469]
- netfilter: nft_flow_offload: reset dst in route object after setting up flow (Florian Westphal) [RHEL-38520 RHEL-33469] {CVE-2024-27403}
- netfilter: flowtable: simplify route logic (Florian Westphal) [RHEL-38520 RHEL-33469]
- net: psample: fix uninitialized metadata. (Adrian Moreno) [RHEL-56909]