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High ELSA-2014-1724 5 CVEs

Important: kernel security and bug fix update (Oracle Linux 7)

Published Oct 28, 2014 · Updated Oct 28, 2014

Summary

[3.10.0-123.9.2]
- Oracle Linux certificates (Alexey Petrenko)

[3.10.0-123.9.2]
- [virt] kvm: fix PIT timer race condition (Petr Matousek) [1144879 1144880] {CVE-2014-3611}
- [virt] kvm/vmx: handle invept and invvpid vm exits gracefully (Petr Matousek) [1145449 1116936] [1144828 1144829] {CVE-2014-3645 CVE-2014-3646}

[3.10.0-123.9.1]
- [md] raid6: avoid data corruption during recovery of double-degraded RAID6 (Jes Sorensen) [1143850 1130905]
- [fs] ext4: fix type declaration of ext4_validate_block_bitmap (Lukas Czerner) [1140978 1091055]
- [fs] ext4: error out if verifying the block bitmap fails (Lukas Czerner) [1140978 1091055]
- [powerpc] sched: stop updating inside arch_update_cpu_topology() when nothing to be update (Gustavo Duarte) [1140300 1098372]
- [powerpc] 64bit sendfile is capped at 2GB (Gustavo Duarte) [1139126 1107774]
- [s390] fix restore of invalid floating-point-control (Hendrik Brueckner) [1138733 1121965]
- [kernel] sched/fair: Rework sched_fair time accounting (Rik van Riel) [1134717 1123731]
- [kernel] math64: Add mul_u64_u32_shr() (Rik van Riel) [1134717 1123731]
- [kernel] workqueue: zero cpumask of wq_numa_possible_cpumask on init (Motohiro Kosaki) [1134715 1117184]
- [cpufreq] acpi-cpufreq: skip loading acpi_cpufreq after intel_pstate (Motohiro Kosaki) [1134716 1123250]
- [security] selinux: Increase ebitmap_node size for 64-bit configuration (Paul Moore) [1132076 922752]
- [security] selinux: Reduce overhead of mls_level_isvalid() function call (Paul Moore) [1132076 922752]
- [ethernet] cxgb4: allow large buffer size to have page size (Gustavo Duarte) [1130548 1078977]
- [kernel] sched/autogroup: Fix race with task_groups list (Gustavo Duarte) [1129990 1081406]
- [net] sctp: inherit auth_capable on INIT collisions (Daniel Borkmann) [1124337 1123763] {CVE-2014-5077}
- [sound] alsa/control: Don't access controls outside of protected regions (Radomir Vrbovsky) [1117330 1117331] {CVE-2014-4653}

Fixed packages 12

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel 0:3.10.0-123.9.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-abi-whitelists 0:3.10.0-123.9.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-debug 0:3.10.0-123.9.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-debug-devel 0:3.10.0-123.9.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-devel 0:3.10.0-123.9.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-doc 0:3.10.0-123.9.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-headers 0:3.10.0-123.9.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-tools 0:3.10.0-123.9.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-tools-libs 0:3.10.0-123.9.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:3.10.0-123.9.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 perf 0:3.10.0-123.9.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 python-perf 0:3.10.0-123.9.2.el7

Vulnerabilities 5