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High ELSA-2018-0151 5 CVEs

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

Published Jan 25, 2018 · Updated Jan 25, 2018

Summary

- [3.10.0-693.17.1.OL7]
- Oracle Linux certificates (Alexey Petrenko)
- Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was compiled into kernel (olkmod_signing_key.x509)(alexey.petrenko@oracle.com)
- Update x509.genkey [bug 24817676]

[3.10.0-693.17.1]
- [s390] locking/barriers: remove old gmb() macro definition (Denys Vlasenko) [1519788 1519786]

[3.10.0-693.16.1]
- [x86] smpboot: Do not use smp_num_siblings in __max_logical_packages calculation (Prarit Bhargava) [1533022 1519503]
- [x86] topology: Add topology_max_smt_threads() (Prarit Bhargava) [1533022 1519503]
- [powerpc] spinlock: add gmb memory barrier (Jon Masters) [1519788 1519786] {CVE-2017-5753}
- [powerpc] Prevent Meltdown attack with L1-D$ flush (Jon Masters) [1519800 1519801] {CVE-2017-5754}
- [s390] add ppa to system call and program check path (Jon Masters) [1519795 1519798] {CVE-2017-5715}
- [s390] spinlock: add gmb memory barrier (Jon Masters) [1519788 1519786] {CVE-2017-5753}
- [s390] introduce CPU alternatives (Jon Masters) [1519795 1519798] {CVE-2017-5715}
- [x86] spec_ctrl: move vmexit rmb in the last branch before IBRS (Andrea Arcangeli) [1533373 1533250]
- [x86] spec_ctrl: satisfy the barrier like semantics of IBRS (Andrea Arcangeli) [1533373 1533250]
- [fs] userfaultfd: clear the vma->vm_userfaultfd_ctx if UFFD_EVENT_FORK fails (Andrea Arcangeli) [1533372 1531287]
- [x86] kaiser/efi: unbreak tboot (Andrea Arcangeli) [1519795 1532989 1519798 1531559] {CVE-2017-5715}
- [x86] spec_ctrl: don't call ptrace_has_cap in the IBPB ctx switch optimization (Andrea Arcangeli) [1519795 1519798] {CVE-2017-5715}
- [x86] kaiser/efi: unbreak EFI old_memmap (Andrea Arcangeli) [1519795 1519798] {CVE-2017-5715}
- [x86] cpuidle_idle_call: fix double local_irq_enable() (Andrea Arcangeli) [1519795 1519798] {CVE-2017-5715}
- [x86] entry: Invoke TRACE_IRQS_IRETQ in paranoid_userspace_restore_all (Andrea Arcangeli) [1519795 1519798] {CVE-2017-5715}
- [x86] cpu: fix get_scattered_cpu_leaf sorting part #2 (Andrea Arcangeli) [1519795 1519798] {CVE-2017-5715}
- [x86] spec_ctrl: show added cpuid flags in /proc/cpuinfo after late microcode update (Andrea Arcangeli) [1519795 1519798] {CVE-2017-5715}
- [x86] cpu: fix get_scattered_cpu_leaf for IBPB feature (Paolo Bonzini) [1519795 1519798]

Fixed packages 12

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel 0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-abi-whitelists 0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-debug 0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-debug-devel 0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-devel 0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-doc 0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-headers 0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-tools 0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-tools-libs 0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 perf 0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 python-perf 0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7

Vulnerabilities 5