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Oracle Linux 8 ELSA-2022-10079: Critical Kernel Security Patch for aarch64

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Calendar Grey December 13, 2022
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux announced a significant patch for its kernel, addressing serious weaknesses to enhance overall system protection.

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

[5.4.17-2136.314.6.2.el8uek] - proc: proc_skip_spaces() shouldn't think it is working on C strings (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 34883034] {CVE-2022-4378} - proc: avoid integer type confusion in get_proc_long (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 34883034] {CVE-2022-4378} [5.4.17-2136.314.6.1.el8uek] - RDMA/uverbs: Move IB_EVENT_DEVICE_FATAL to destroy_uobj (Jason Gunthorpe) [Orabug: 34859614] - RDMA/uverbs: Do not discard the IB_EVENT_DEVICE_FATAL event (Jason Gunthorpe) [Orabug: 34859614] - Adding a new sysfs entry point -- forcepower -- to /sys/bus/pci/slots/X. (James Puthukattukaran) [Orabug: 34859609] - nvme: paring quiesce/unquiesce (Ming Lei) [Orabug: 34859609] - nvme: prepare for pairing quiescing and unquiescing (Ming Lei) [Orabug: 34859609] - nvme: apply nvme API to quiesce/unquiesce admin queue (Ming Lei) [Orabug: 34859609] - nvme: add APIs for stopping/starting admin queue (Ming Lei) [Orabug: 34859609] - nvme-fc: remove freeze/unfreeze around update_nr_hw_queue...

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SRPMs

https://oss.oracle.com:443/ol8/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-5.4.17-2136.314.6.2.el8uek.src.rpm

x86_64

aarch64

kernel-uek-5.4.17-2136.314.6.2.el8uek.aarch64.rpm kernel-uek-debug-5.4.17-2136.314.6.2.el8uek.aarch64.rpm kernel-uek-debug-devel-5.4.17-2136.314.6.2.el8uek.aarch64.rpm kernel-uek-devel-5.4.17-2136.314.6.2.el8uek.aarch64.rpm kernel-uek-doc-5.4.17-2136.314.6.2.el8uek.noarch.rpm

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Related CVEs: CVE-2022-2602 CVE-2022-3565 CVE-2022-4378

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