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High ELSA-2018-4244 1 CVE

Important: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (Oracle Linux 7)

Published Oct 10, 2018 · Updated Oct 10, 2018

Summary

[4.1.12-124.20.1]
- bnxt_en: xdp: don't make drivers report attachment mode (partial backport) (Somasundaram Krishnasamy) [Orabug: 27988326]
- bpf: make bnxt compatible w/ bpf_xdp_adjust_tail (Nikita V. Shirokov) [Orabug: 27988326]
- bnxt_en: add meta pointer for direct access (partial backport) (Somasundaram Krishnasamy) [Orabug: 27988326]
- bnxt_en: Fix bug in ethtool -L. (Michael Chan) [Orabug: 27988326]
- bpf: bnxt: Report bpf_prog ID during XDP_QUERY_PROG (Martin KaFai Lau) [Orabug: 27988326]
- bnxt_en: Optimize doorbell write operations for newer chips (reapply). (Michael Chan) [Orabug: 27988326]
- bnxt_en: Use short TX BDs for the XDP TX ring. (Michael Chan) [Orabug: 27988326]
- bnxt_en: Add ethtool mac loopback self test (reapply). (Michael Chan) [Orabug: 27988326]
- bnxt_en: Add support for XDP_TX action. (Michael Chan) [Orabug: 27988326]
- bnxt_en: Add basic XDP support. (Michael Chan) [Orabug: 27988326]
- x86/ia32: Restore r8 correctly in 32bit SYSCALL instruction entry. (Gayatri Vasudevan) [Orabug: 28529706]
- net: enable RPS on vlan devices (Shannon Nelson) [Orabug: 28645929]
- xen-blkback: hold write vbd-lock while swapping the vbd (Ankur Arora) [Orabug: 28651655]
- xen-blkback: implement swapping of active vbd (Ankur Arora) [Orabug: 28651655]
- xen-blkback: emit active physical device to xenstore (Ankur Arora) [Orabug: 28651655]
- xen-blkback: refactor backend_changed() (Ankur Arora) [Orabug: 28651655]
- xen-blkback: pull out blkif grant features from vbd (Ankur Arora) [Orabug: 28651655]
- mm: get rid of vmacache_flush_all() entirely (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 28701016] {CVE-2018-17182}

[4.1.12-124.19.9]
- rds: crash at rds_ib_inc_copy_to_user+104 due to NULL ptr reference (Venkat Venkatsubra) [Orabug: 28506569]

[4.1.12-124.19.8]
- IB/core: For multicast functions, verify that LIDs are multicast LIDs (Michael J. Ruhl) [Orabug: 28700490]

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek 0:4.1.12-124.20.1.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-debug 0:4.1.12-124.20.1.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-debug-devel 0:4.1.12-124.20.1.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-devel 0:4.1.12-124.20.1.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-doc 0:4.1.12-124.20.1.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-firmware 0:4.1.12-124.20.1.el7uek

Vulnerabilities 1