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Oracle Linux 8 ELSA-2021-4056 Critical: Kernel Security Update

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Calendar Grey November 3, 2021
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Red Hat Security Notice RHSA-2021-8098 outlines critical patches for vulnerabilities found in the kernel. Learn more.
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

[4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.OL8] - Update Oracle Linux certificates (Kevin Lyons) - Disable signing for aarch64 (Ilya Okomin) - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was added to the kernel trusted keys list (olkmod_signing_key.pem) [Orabug: 29539237] - Update x509.genkey [Orabug: 24817676] - Conflict with shim-ia32 and shim-x64 <= 15-11.0.5.el8 [4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4] - scsi: ibmvfc: Reinit target retries (Steve Best) [1993892 1965010] - scsi: ibmvfc: Avoid move login if fast fail is enabled (Steve Best) [1993892 1965010] - scsi: ibmvfc: Handle move login failure (Steve Best) [1993892 1965010] - scsi: ibmvfc: Fix invalid state machine BUG_ON() (Steve Best) [1993892 1965010] - tpm, tpm_tis: Reserve locality in tpm_tis_resume() (Jerry Snitselaar) [1998219 1920812] - tpm, tpm_tis: Extend locality handling to TPM2 in tpm_tis_gen_interrupt() (Jerry Snitselaar) [1998219 1920812] - tpm, tpm_tis: Decorate tpm_tis_gen_interrupt() with request_locality() (Jerry Snitselaar) [1998219 1920812] -...

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SRPMs

https://oss.oracle.com:443/ol8/SRPMS-updates/kernel-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.src.rpm

x86_64

bpftool-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.noarch.rpm kernel-core-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-doc-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-modules-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm perf-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm python3-perf-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm

aarch64

bpftool-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-headers-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm perf-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm python3-perf-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm

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Related CVEs: CVE-2020-36385 CVE-2021-0512 CVE-2021-3656

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