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Oracle Linux 8 ELSA-2022-9368 Important: Kernel Security Update

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2022
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Oracle Linux 8 has been updated to tackle important security vulnerabilities within the kernel. Visit Oracle's website for comprehensive advisory information.
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network

Summary

[5.4.17-2136.307.3.1.el8] - Revert "rds/ib: recover rds connection from stuck tx path" (Nagappan Ramasamy Palaniappan) [Orabug: 34124233] [5.4.17-2136.307.3.el8] - kvm: debugfs: fix memory leak in kvm_create_vm_debugfs (Pavel Skripkin) [Orabug: 33099019] - KVM: debugfs: Reuse binary stats descriptors (Jing Zhang) [Orabug: 33099019] - KVM: selftests: Add selftest for KVM statistics data binary interface (Jing Zhang) [Orabug: 33099019] - KVM: stats: Add documentation for binary statistics interface (Jing Zhang) [Orabug: 33099019] - KVM: stats: Support binary stats retrieval for a VCPU (Jing Zhang) [Orabug: 33099019] - KVM: stats: Support binary stats retrieval for a VM (Jing Zhang) [Orabug: 33099019] - KVM: stats: Add fd-based API to read binary stats data (Jing Zhang) [Orabug: 33099019] - KVM: stats: Separate generic stats from architecture specific ones (Jing Zhang) [Orabug: 33099019] - KVM: switch per-VM stats to u64 (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33099019] -...

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security advisory security issue kernel update system updates important advisory oracle linux container fix

SRPMs

https://oss.oracle.com:443/ol8/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-container-5.4.17-2136.307.3.1.el8.src.rpm

x86_64

kernel-uek-container-5.4.17-2136.307.3.1.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-container-debug-5.4.17-2136.307.3.1.el8.x86_64.rpm

aarch64

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Related CVEs: CVE-2020-24502 CVE-2020-245024 CVE-2020-24503 CVE-2021-45095 CVE-2022-1016 CVE-2022-1055 CVE-2022-1158 CVE-2022-27666

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security advisory security issue kernel update system updates important advisory oracle linux container fix

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