[Oraclevm-errata] OVMSA-2018-0228 Important: Oracle VM 3.4 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

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Wed Jun 13 17:12:13 PDT 2018


Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2018-0228

The following updated rpms for Oracle VM 3.4 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.16.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-124.16.2.el6uek.noarch.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/oraclevm/server/3.4/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.16.2.el6uek.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[4.1.12-124.16.2.el6uek]
- netlink: add a start callback for starting a netlink dump (Tom 
Herbert)  [Orabug: 27169581]  {CVE-2017-16939}
- ipsec: Fix aborted xfrm policy dump crash (Herbert Xu)  [Orabug: 
27169581]  {CVE-2017-16939}

[4.1.12-124.16.1.el6uek]
- net/rds: prevent RDS connections using stale ARP entries (Wei Lin 
Guay)  [Orabug: 28149101]
- net/rds: Avoid stalled connection due to CM REQ retries (Wei Lin Guay) 
  [Orabug: 28068627]
- net/rds: use one sided reconnection during a race (Wei Lin Guay) 
[Orabug: 28068627]
- Revert "Revert "net/rds: Revert "RDS: add reconnect retry scheme for 
stalled" (Håkon Bugge)  [Orabug: 28068627]
- xen-swiotlb: fix the check condition for xen_swiotlb_free_coherent 
(Joe Jin)  [Orabug: 22910685]
- net/rds: Assign the correct service level (Wei Lin Guay)  [Orabug: 
27607213]
- target: Re-add missing SCF_ACK_KREF assignment in v4.1.y (Nicholas 
Bellinger)  [Orabug: 27781132]
- target: Fix LUN_RESET active I/O handling for ACK_KREF (Nicholas 
Bellinger)  [Orabug: 27781132]
- target: Invoke release_cmd() callback without holding a spinlock (Bart 
Van Assche)  [Orabug: 27781132]
- x86/bugs: Remove the Disabling Spectre v2 mitigation retpoline (Konrad 
Rzeszutek Wilk)  [Orabug: 27897282]
- x86/bugs: Report properly retpoline+IBRS (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk)
- x86/bugs: Don't lie when fallback retpoline is engaged (Konrad 
Rzeszutek Wilk)
- fs: aio: fix the increment of aio-nr and counting against aio-max-nr 
(Mauricio Faria de Oliveira)  [Orabug: 28079082]
- qla2xxx: Enable buffer boundary check when DIF bundling is on. (Rajan 
Shanmugavelu)  [Orabug: 28130589]
- kernel: sys.c: missing break for prctl spec ctrl (Mihai Carabas) 
[Orabug: 28144775]

[4.1.12-124.15.4.el6uek]
- x86/bugs/IBRS: Keep SSBD mitigation in effect if spectre_v2=ibrs is 
selected (Mihai Carabas)
- fs/pstore: update the backend parameter in pstore module (Wang Long) 
[Orabug: 27994372]
- kvm: vmx: Reinstate support for CPUs without virtual NMI (Paolo 
Bonzini)  [Orabug: 28041210]
- dm crypt: add big-endian variant of plain64 IV (Milan Broz)  [Orabug: 
28043932]
- x86/bugs: Rename SSBD_NO to SSB_NO (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk)  [Orabug: 
28063992]  {CVE-2018-3639}
- KVM: SVM: Implement VIRT_SPEC_CTRL support for SSBD (Tom Lendacky) 
[Orabug: 28063992] [Orabug: 28069548]  {CVE-2018-3639}
- x86/speculation, KVM: Implement support for VIRT_SPEC_CTRL/LS_CFG 
(Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 28063992]  {CVE-2018-3639}
- x86/bugs: Rework spec_ctrl base and mask logic (Thomas Gleixner) 
[Orabug: 28063992]  {CVE-2018-3639}
- x86/bugs: Expose x86_spec_ctrl_base directly (Thomas Gleixner) 
[Orabug: 28063992]  {CVE-2018-3639}
- x86/bugs: Unify x86_spec_ctrl_{set_guest,restore_host} (Borislav 
Petkov)  [Orabug: 28063992]  {CVE-2018-3639}
- x86/speculation: Rework speculative_store_bypass_update() (Thomas 
Gleixner)  [Orabug: 28063992]  {CVE-2018-3639}
- x86/speculation: Add virtualized speculative store bypass disable 
support (Tom Lendacky)  [Orabug: 28063992]  {CVE-2018-3639}
- x86/bugs, KVM: Extend speculation control for VIRT_SPEC_CTRL (Thomas 
Gleixner)  [Orabug: 28063992]  {CVE-2018-3639}
- x86/speculation: Handle HT correctly on AMD (Thomas Gleixner) 
[Orabug: 28063992]  {CVE-2018-3639}
- x86/cpufeatures: Add FEATURE_ZEN (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 28063992] 
  {CVE-2018-3639}
- x86/cpu/AMD: Fix erratum 1076 (CPB bit) (Borislav Petkov)  [Orabug: 
28063992]  {CVE-2018-3639}

[4.1.12-124.15.3.el6uek]
- perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation (Linus 
Torvalds)  [Orabug: 27947602]  {CVE-2018-1000199}
- Revert "perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation" 
(Brian Maly)  [Orabug: 27947602]



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