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High ELSA-2018-1629 1 CVE

Important: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 7)

Published May 22, 2018 · Updated May 22, 2018

Summary

[3.10.0-862.3.2.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]

[3.10.0-862.3.2]
- [x86] spec_ctrl: Fix late microcode problem with AMD (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
- [x86] entry: Add missing '$' in IBRS macros (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
- [x86] spec_ctrl: Clean up entry code & remove unused APIs (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
- [x86] spec_ctrl: Mask off SPEC_CTRL MSR bits that are managed by kernel (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
- [x86] spec_ctrl: add support for SSBD to RHEL IBRS entry/exit macros (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
- [fs] proc: Use CamelCase for SSBD (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
- [x86] bugs: Rename _RDS to _SSBD (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
- [kernel] seccomp: Enable speculation flaw mitigations (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
- [fs] proc: Provide details on speculation flaw mitigations (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
- [x86] nospec: Allow getting/setting on non-current task (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
- [x86] speculation: Add prctl for Speculative Store Bypass mitigation (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
- [x86] process: Allow runtime control of Speculative Store Bypass (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
- [uapi] prctl: Add speculation control prctls (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
- [x86] kvm/vmx: Expose SPEC_CTRL Bit(2) to the guest (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
- [x86] bugs/amd: Add support to disable RDS on Fam[15, 16, 17]h if requested (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
- [x86] spec_ctrl: Sync up RDS setting with IBRS code (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
- [x86] bugs: Provide boot parameters for the spec_store_bypass_disable mitigation (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
- [x86] bugs: Expose /sys/../spec_store_bypass (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
- [x86] bugs: Read SPEC_CTRL MSR during boot and re-use (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
- [x86] spec_ctrl: Use separate PCP variables for IBRS entry and exit (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
- [x86] cpufeatures: Make CPU bugs sticky (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}

[3.10.0-862.3.1]
- [x86] kpti/kexec: fix wrong page address in clear_page (Dave Young) [1573173 1571162]
- [x86] kvm: fix icebp instruction handling (Paolo Bonzini) [1566849 1566845] {CVE-2018-1087}
- [x86] entry/64: Don't use IST entry for #BP stack (Paolo Bonzini) [1567084 1567083] {CVE-2018-8897}
- [kernel] perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation (Eugene Syromiatnikov) [1569878 1569874] {CVE-2018-1000199}

Fixed packages 12

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel 0:3.10.0-862.3.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-abi-whitelists 0:3.10.0-862.3.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-debug 0:3.10.0-862.3.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-debug-devel 0:3.10.0-862.3.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-devel 0:3.10.0-862.3.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-doc 0:3.10.0-862.3.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-headers 0:3.10.0-862.3.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-tools 0:3.10.0-862.3.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-tools-libs 0:3.10.0-862.3.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:3.10.0-862.3.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 perf 0:3.10.0-862.3.2.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 python-perf 0:3.10.0-862.3.2.el7

Vulnerabilities 1