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Oracle Linux 7 ELSA-2021-3801 Critical: Kernel Security Fix

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Calendar Grey October 13, 2021
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Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2021-3810 pertains to significant kernel upgrades that implement vital security patches.
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

[3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.OL7] - Update Oracle Linux certificates (Ilya Okomin) - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was compiled into kernel (olkmod_signing_key.x509)(alexey.petrenko@oracle.com) - Update x509.genkey [Orabug: 24817676] - Conflict with shim-ia32 and shim-x64 <= 15-2.0.9.el7 - Update oracle(kernel-sig-key) value to match new certificate (Ilya Okomin) [3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7] - CI: handle RT branches in a single config (Veronika Kabatova) - CI: Drop private CI config (Veronika Kabatova) - CI: extend template use (Veronika Kabatova) - mm: page_counter: mitigate consequences of a page_counter underflow (Scott Wood) [2000973] - KVM: nSVM: always intercept VMLOAD/VMSAVE when nested(CVE-2021-3656) (Jon Maloy) [1985425] {CVE-2021-3656} - KVM: x86: Update vCPU's hv_clock before back to guest when tsc_offset is adjusted (Marcelo Tosatti) [1991856] - KVM: nSVM: avoid picking up unsupported bits from L2 in int_ctl (CVE-2021-3653) (Jon Maloy) [1985408] {CVE-2021-3653} - scsi: qe...

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SRPMs

https://oss.oracle.com:443/ol7/SRPMS-updates/kernel-3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.src.rpm

x86_64

bpftool-3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.noarch.rpm kernel-debug-3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-doc-3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.x86_64.rpm

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Related CVEs: CVE-2021-3653 CVE-2021-3656 CVE-2021-22543 CVE-2021-37576

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