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Oracle Linux 8 ELSA-2023-12782 Critical: Kernel Alignment Issue Fix

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Calendar Grey September 12, 2023
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Users of Oracle Linux 8 are required to install the kernel security patch ELSA-2023-12782 to resolve a significant alignment vulnerability.
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

[5.4.17-2136.323.8.el8uek] - vhost-scsi: Fix alignment handling with windows (Mike Christie) [Orabug: 35769318] - Revert "vhost/scsi: support non zerocopy iovecs" (Rajan Shanmugavelu) [Orabug: 35769318] [5.4.17-2136.323.7.el8uek] - x86: change default to spec_store_bypass_disable=prctl spectre_v2_user=prctl (Andrea Arcangeli) [Orabug: 35725160] - KVM: SVM: Add support for Virtual SPEC_CTRL (Babu Moger) [Orabug: 35725160] - x86/cpufeatures: Add the Virtual SPEC_CTRL feature (Babu Moger) [Orabug: 35725160] - x86/mm: Initialize text poking earlier (Peter Zijlstra) [Orabug: 35744495] - mm: Move mm_cachep initialization to mm_init() (Peter Zijlstra) [Orabug: 35744495] - x86/mm: Use mm_alloc() in poking_init() (Peter Zijlstra) [Orabug: 35744495] - mips: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL (Jens Axboe) [Orabug: 35749111] [5.4.17-2136.323.6.el8uek] - ek-rpm: Update kernel's linux-firmware dependency. (Brian Maly) [Orabug: 35742717] - nbd: make sure request completion won't concur...

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SRPMs

https://oss.oracle.com:443/ol8/SRPMS-updates//kernel-uek-5.4.17-2136.323.8.el8uek.src.rpm

x86_64

aarch64

kernel-uek-5.4.17-2136.323.8.el8uek.aarch64.rpm kernel-uek-debug-5.4.17-2136.323.8.el8uek.aarch64.rpm kernel-uek-debug-devel-5.4.17-2136.323.8.el8uek.aarch64.rpm kernel-uek-devel-5.4.17-2136.323.8.el8uek.aarch64.rpm kernel-uek-doc-5.4.17-2136.323.8.el8uek.noarch.rpm

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Related CVEs: CVE-2022-40982

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