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Oracle Linux 7: ELSA-2025-20271 critical: kernel security fixes

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Calendar Grey April 16, 2025
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The latest Oracle Linux kernel updates tackle significant vulnerabilities to improve overall security and reliability. Safeguard your systems immediately!
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

[5.4.17-2136.342.5.el7uek] - ima: Fix use-after-free on a dentry's dname.name (Stefan Berger) [Orabug: 36835558] {CVE-2024-39494} [5.4.17-2136.342.4.el7uek] - sched: sch_cake: add bounds checks to host bulk flow fairness counts (Toke Høiland-Jørgensen) - udf: Fix use of check_add_overflow() with mixed type arguments (Ben Hutchings) - x86/xen: allow larger contiguous memory regions in PV guests (Juergen Gross) - xen: remove a confusing comment on auto-translated guest I/O (Petr Tesarik) - ALSA: hda/realtek: Fixup ALC225 depop procedure (Kailang Yang) - ALSA: hda/realtek - Add type for ALC287 (Kailang Yang) - net: loopback: Avoid sending IP packets without an Ethernet header (Ido Schimmel) - netem: Update sch->q.qlen before qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog() (Cong Wang) - ocfs2: fix incorrect CPU endianness conversion causing mount failure (Heming Zhao) - Revert "btrfs: avoid monopolizing a core when activating a swap file" (Koichiro Den) - gtp: Suppress list corruption splat in gt...

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SRPMs

http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates//kernel-uek-5.4.17-2136.342.5.el7uek.src.rpm

x86_64

kernel-uek-5.4.17-2136.342.5.el7uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-container-5.4.17-2136.342.5.el7uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-container-debug-5.4.17-2136.342.5.el7uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-debug-5.4.17-2136.342.5.el7uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-debug-devel-5.4.17-2136.342.5.el7uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-devel-5.4.17-2136.342.5.el7uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-doc-5.4.17-2136.342.5.el7uek.noarch.rpm kernel-uek-tools-5.4.17-2136.342.5.el7uek.x86_64.rpm

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Related CVEs: CVE-2024-39494

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