[Oraclevm-errata] OVMSA-2022-0005 Important: Oracle VM 3 Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle VM]

Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2022-0005

The following updated rpms for Oracle VM 3 Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.59.1.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-124.59.1.2.el6uek.noarch.rpm



Related CVEs:

CVE-2021-1048
CVE-2021-4155
CVE-2021-0920




Description of changes:

[4.1.12-124.59.1.2.el6uek]
- fix regression in "epoll: Keep a reference on files added to the check list" (Al Viro)  [Orabug: 33679854]  {CVE-2021-1048}
- fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it (Linus Torvalds)  [Orabug: 33679806]  {CVE-2021-0920}
- fs: add fget_many() and fput_many() (Jens Axboe)  [Orabug: 33679806]
- af_unix: fix garbage collect vs MSG_PEEK (Miklos Szeredi)  [Orabug: 33679806]  {CVE-2021-0920}
- net: split out functions related to registering inflight socket files (Jens Axboe)  [Orabug: 33679806]

[4.1.12-124.59.1.1.el6uek]
- xfs: map unwritten blocks in XFS_IOC_{ALLOC,FREE}SP just like fallocate (Darrick J. Wong)  [Orabug: 33703630]  {CVE-2021-4155}