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Oracle Linux 7: ELSA-2025-20019 Important: Kernel Security Update

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Calendar Grey January 17, 2025
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Oracle Linux ELSA-2025-20020 includes vital advancements in the kernel, correcting significant vulnerabilities and enhancing overall system performance.
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

[5.4.17-2136.339.5.el7uek] - tracing/kprobes: Skip symbol counting logic for module symbols in create_local_trace_kprobe() (Nikolay Kuratov) - vhost_scsi: log write descriptors (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 37393533] - vhost-scsi: protect vq->log_base with vq->mutex (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 37393533] [5.4.17-2136.339.4.el7uek] - RDMA/bnxt_re: Check cqe flags to know imm_data vs inv_irkey (Kashyap Desai) - Revert "mmc: dw_mmc: Fix IDMAC operation with pages bigger than 4K" (Aurelien Jarno) - mm: revert "mm: shmem: fix data-race in shmem_getattr()" (Andrew Morton) - net/ipv6: release expired exception dst cached in socket (Jiri Wiesner) - Revert "unicode: Don't special case ignorable code points" (Linus Torvalds) - powerpc/vdso: Flag VDSO64 entry points as functions (Christophe Leroy) - Revert "usb: gadget: composite: fix OS descriptors w_value logic" (Michal Vrastil) [5.4.17-2136.339.3.el7uek] - Revert "ocfs2: fix the la space leak when unmounting an ocfs2 volume" (Sherry Yang) [Orab...

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SRPMs

http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates//kernel-uek-5.4.17-2136.339.5.el7uek.src.rpm

x86_64

kernel-uek-5.4.17-2136.339.5.el7uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-container-5.4.17-2136.339.5.el7uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-container-debug-5.4.17-2136.339.5.el7uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-debug-5.4.17-2136.339.5.el7uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-debug-devel-5.4.17-2136.339.5.el7uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-devel-5.4.17-2136.339.5.el7uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-doc-5.4.17-2136.339.5.el7uek.noarch.rpm kernel-uek-tools-5.4.17-2136.339.5.el7uek.x86_64.rpm

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Related CVEs: CVE-2022-29901 CVE-2024-56644

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