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High 1 exploited CVE ELSA-2019-2411 2 CVEs

Important: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Aug 19, 2019 · Updated Aug 19, 2019

Summary

- [4.18.0-80.7.2_0.OL8]
- Oracle Linux certificates (Alexey Petrenko)
- 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]

[4.18.0-80.7.2_0]
- [x86] x86/entry/64: Use JMP instead of JMPQ (Josh Poimboeuf) [1724500 1724501] {CVE-2019-1125}
- [x86] x86/speculation: Enable Spectre v1 swapgs mitigations (Josh Poimboeuf) [1724500 1724501] {CVE-2019-1125}
- [x86] x86/speculation: Prepare entry code for Spectre v1 swapgs mitigations (Josh Poimboeuf) [1724500 1724501] {CVE-2019-1125}
- [x86] x86/cpufeatures: Combine word 11 and 12 into a new scattered features word (Josh Poimboeuf) [1724500 1724501] {CVE-2019-1125}
- [x86] x86/cpufeatures: Carve out CQM features retrieval (Josh Poimboeuf) [1724500 1724501] {CVE-2019-1125}
- [kernel] ptrace: Fix ->ptracer_cred handling for PTRACE_TRACEME (Aristeu Rozanski) [1730958 1730959] {CVE-2019-13272}

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:4.18.0-80.7.2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-80.7.2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-abi-whitelists 0:4.18.0-80.7.2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-core 0:4.18.0-80.7.2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-cross-headers 0:4.18.0-80.7.2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-80.7.2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-80.7.2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-80.7.2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-80.7.2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-80.7.2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-80.7.2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-80.7.2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-headers 0:4.18.0-80.7.2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-80.7.2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-80.7.2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-80.7.2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-80.7.2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:4.18.0-80.7.2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 perf 0:4.18.0-80.7.2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-perf 0:4.18.0-80.7.2.el8_0

Vulnerabilities 2