[Oraclevm-errata] OVMSA-2024-0010 Important: Oracle VM 3 Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle VM]

Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2024-0010

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

x86_64:
kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.88.3.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-124.88.3.el6uek.noarch.rpm



Related CVEs:

CVE-2021-47495
CVE-2022-24448
CVE-2023-52528
CVE-2023-52813
CVE-2023-52880
CVE-2024-25739
CVE-2024-26642
CVE-2024-27020
CVE-2024-36934
CVE-2024-36941
CVE-2024-36946
CVE-2024-41090
CVE-2024-41091




Description of changes:

[4.1.12-124.88.3.el6uek]
- crypto: pcrypt - Fix hungtask for PADATA_RESET (Lu Jialin)  [Orabug: 36806710]  {CVE-2023-52813}
- usbnet: sanity check for maxpacket (Oliver Neukum)  [Orabug: 36806658]  {CVE-2021-47495}
- phonet: fix rtm_phonet_notify() skb allocation (Eric Dumazet)  [Orabug: 36683487]  {CVE-2024-36946}
- wifi: nl80211: don't free NULL coalescing rule (Johannes Berg)  [Orabug: 36683466]  {CVE-2024-36941}
- bna: ensure the copied buf is NUL terminated (Bui Quang Minh)  [Orabug: 36683433]  {CVE-2024-36934}
- bna: use memdup_user to copy userspace buffers (Ivan Vecera)  [Orabug: 36683433]  {CVE-2024-36934}
- new helper: memdup_user_nul() (Al Viro)  [Orabug: 36683433]  {CVE-2024-36934}
- netfilter: nf_tables: Fix potential data-race in __nft_expr_type_get() (Ziyang Xuan)  [Orabug: 36598047]  {CVE-2024-27020}
- netfilter: nf_tables: __nft_expr_type_get() selects specific family type (Pablo Neira Ayuso)  [Orabug: 36598047]  {CVE-2024-27020}
- net/mlx5e: drop shorter ethernet frames (Manjunath Patil)  [Orabug: 36879159]  {CVE-2024-41090} {CVE-2024-41091}

[4.1.12-124.88.2.el6uek]
- net: usb: smsc75xx: Fix uninit-value access in __smsc75xx_read_reg (Shigeru Yoshida)  [Orabug: 36802310]  {CVE-2023-52528}
- usbnet/smsc75xx: silence uninitialized variable warning (Dan Carpenter)   {CVE-2023-52528}
- tty: n_gsm: require CAP_NET_ADMIN to attach N_GSM0710 ldisc (Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo)  [Orabug: 36685663]  {CVE-2023-52880}
- netfilter: nf_tables: disallow anonymous set with timeout flag (Pablo Neira Ayuso)  [Orabug: 36530112]  {CVE-2024-26642}
- ubi: Check for too small LEB size in VTBL code (Richard Weinberger)  [Orabug: 36356637]  {CVE-2024-25739}

[4.1.12-124.88.1.el6uek]
- NFS: LOOKUP_DIRECTORY is also ok with symlinks (Trond Myklebust)  [Orabug: 33958156]  {CVE-2022-24448}
- NFSv4: Handle case where the lookup of a directory fails (Trond Myklebust)  [Orabug: 33958156]  {CVE-2022-24448}