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Oracle Linux 7 ELSA-2021-9474 Critical Security Update for Kernel

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Calendar Grey October 11, 2021
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Oracle Linux Security Alert ELSA-2021-9474 highlights essential updates for the kernel that tackle significant vulnerabilities. Discover further details!
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

[5.4.17-2102.206.1.el7uek] - Revert "scsi: core: Cap scsi_host cmd_per_lun at can_queue" (Jack Vogel) [Orabug: 33403144] [5.4.17-2102.206.0.el7uek] - Revert "uek-rpm: Don't recompute build-ids for kernel-uek-debuginfo" (Jack Vogel) [Orabug: 33245043] - integrity: Load mokx variables into the blacklist keyring (Eric Snowberg) [Orabug: 33418496] - perf/x86/amd: Don't touch the AMD64_EVENTSEL_HOSTONLY bit inside the guest (Like Xu) [Orabug: 33359395] - xen: delay xen_hvm_init_time_ops() if kdump is boot on vcpu>=32 (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 33352679] - Revert "uek-rpm: mark /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ files as %config" (aloktiw) [Orabug: 33311489] - IB/core: Read subnet_prefix in ib_query_port via cache. (Anand Khoje) [Orabug: 33134286] - IB/core: Shifting initialization of device->cache_lock (Anand Khoje) [Orabug: 33134286] - IB/core: Updating cache for subnet_prefix in config_non_roce_gid_cache() (Anand Khoje) [Orabug: 33134286] - IB/core: Shuffle locks in ib_port_data to save ...

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SRPMs

https://oss.oracle.com:443/ol7/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-5.4.17-2102.206.1.el7uek.src.rpm

x86_64

kernel-uek-5.4.17-2102.206.1.el7uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-debug-5.4.17-2102.206.1.el7uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-debug-devel-5.4.17-2102.206.1.el7uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-devel-5.4.17-2102.206.1.el7uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-doc-5.4.17-2102.206.1.el7uek.noarch.rpm kernel-uek-tools-5.4.17-2102.206.1.el7uek.x86_64.rpm

aarch64

kernel-uek-5.4.17-2102.206.1.el7uek.aarch64.rpm kernel-uek-debug-5.4.17-2102.206.1.el7uek.aarch64.rpm kernel-uek-debug-devel-5.4.17-2102.206.1.el7uek.aarch64.rpm kernel-uek-devel-5.4.17-2102.206.1.el7uek.aarch64.rpm kernel-uek-doc-5.4.17-2102.206.1.el7uek.noarch.rpm kernel-uek-tools-5.4.17-2102.206.1.el7uek.aarch64.rpm kernel-uek-tools-libs-5.4.17-2102.206.1.el7uek.aarch64.rpm perf-5.4.17-2102.206.1.el7uek.aarch64.rpm python-perf-5.4.17-2102.206.1.el7uek.aarch64.rpm

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Related CVEs: CVE-2021-37159 CVE-2021-3739 CVE-2021-3743 CVE-2021-38198 CVE-2021-40490

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