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Oracle Linux 9 ELSA-2023-1470 Critical: Kernel Security Update

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2023
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The Fedora Security Bulletin FED-2023-3211 announces significant kernel improvements and vital security upgrades for Fedora 38.
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 9 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

- [5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.OL9] - 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 <= 15.3-1.0.5] - Remove nmap references from kernel (Mridula Shastry) [Orabug: 34313944] - Remove upstream reference during boot (Kevin Lyons) [Orabug: 34729535] [5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1] - tun: avoid double free in tun_free_netdev (Jon Maloy) [2156373] {CVE-2022-4744} [5.14.0-162.22.1.el9_1] - ALSA: pcm: Move rwsem lock inside snd_ctl_elem_read to prevent UAF (Jaroslav Kysela) [2163390 2125540] {CVE-2023-0266} [5.14.0-162.21.1.el9_1] - s390/boot: add secure boot trailer (Tobias Huschle) [2151528 2141966] - s390/kexec: fix ipl report address for kdump (Tobias Huschle) [2166903 2161327] - s390/qeth: cache link_info for ethtool (Tobias Huschle) [2166304 21104...

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SRPMs

https://oss.oracle.com:443/ol9/SRPMS-updates//kernel-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.src.rpm

x86_64

bpftool-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-abi-stablelists-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.noarch.rpm kernel-core-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-core-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-matched-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-extra-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-matched-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-doc-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-modules-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-modules-extra-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.x86_64.rpm perf-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.x86_64.rpm python3-perf-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-cross-head...

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aarch64

bpftool-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-headers-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.aarch64.rpm perf-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.aarch64.rpm python3-perf-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-cross-headers-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-devel-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.aarch64.rpm

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Related CVEs: CVE-2022-4269 CVE-2022-4744 CVE-2023-0266

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