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High ELSA-2019-3979 2 CVEs

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

Published Nov 26, 2019 · Updated Nov 26, 2019

Summary

[3.10.0-1062.7.1.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 [Orabug: 24817676]

[3.10.0-1062.7.1]
- [drm] drm/i915/cmdparser: Fix jump whitelist clearing (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
- [drm] drm/i915: Lower RM timeout to avoid DSI hard hangs (Dave Airlie) [1756815 1756816] {CVE-2019-0154}
- [drm] drm/i915/gen8+: Add RC6 CTX corruption WA (Dave Airlie) [1756815 1756816] {CVE-2019-0154}
- [drm] drm/i915/cmdparser: Ignore Length operands during command matching (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
- [drm] drm/i915/cmdparser: Add support for backward jumps (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
- [drm] drm/i915/cmdparser: Use explicit goto for error paths (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
- [drm] drm/i915: Add gen9 BCS cmdparsing (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
- [drm] drm/i915: Allow parsing of unsized batches (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
- [drm] drm/i915: Support ro ppgtt mapped cmdparser shadow buffers (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
- [drm] drm/i915: Add support for mandatory cmdparsing (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
- [drm] drm/i915: Remove Master tables from cmdparser (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
- [drm] drm/i915: Disable Secure Batches for gen6+ (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
- [drm] drm/i915: Rename gen7 cmdparser tables (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
- [x86] tsx: Add config options to set tsx=on|off|auto (Waiman Long) [1766539 1766540] {CVE-2019-11135}
- [documentation] x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort (Waiman Long) [1766539 1766540] {CVE-2019-11135}
- [x86] tsx: Add 'auto' option to the tsx= cmdline parameter (Waiman Long) [1766539 1766540] {CVE-2019-11135}
- [x86] speculation/taa: Add sysfs reporting for TSX Async Abort (Waiman Long) [1766539 1766540] {CVE-2019-11135}
- [x86] speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort (Waiman Long) [1766539 1766540] {CVE-2019-11135}
- [x86] cpu: Add a 'tsx=' cmdline option with TSX disabled by default (Waiman Long) [1766539 1766540] {CVE-2019-11135}
- [x86] cpu: Add a helper function x86_read_arch_cap_msr() (Waiman Long) [1766539 1766540] {CVE-2019-11135}
- [x86] msr: Add the IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR (Waiman Long) [1766539 1766540] {CVE-2019-11135}
- [documentation] documentation: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT documentation (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}
- [x86] kvm: x86: mmu: Recovery of shattered NX large pages (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}
- [virt] kvm: Add helper function for creating VM worker threads (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}
- [x86] kvm: mmu: ITLB_MULTIHIT mitigation (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}
- [kernel] cpu/speculation: Uninline and export CPU mitigations helpers (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}
- [x86] cpu: Add Tremont to the cpu vulnerability whitelist (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}
- [x86] Add ITLB_MULTIHIT bug infrastructure (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}
- [x86] kvm: vmx, svm: always run with EFER.NXE=1 when shadow paging is active (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}
- [x86] kvm: x86: add tracepoints around __direct_map and FNAME(fetch) (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}
- [x86] kvm: x86: change kvm_mmu_page_get_gfn BUG_ON to WARN_ON (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}
- [x86] kvm: x86: remove now unneeded hugepage gfn adjustment (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}
- [x86] kvm: x86: make FNAME(fetch) and __direct_map more similar (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}
- [x86] kvm: mmu: Do not release the page inside mmu_set_spte() (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}
- [x86] kvm: x86: mmu: Remove unused parameter of __direct_map() (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}
- [virt] kvm: Convert kvm_lock to a mutex (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}
- [x86] kvm: mmu: drop vcpu param in gpte_access (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}
- [virt] kvm: x86, powerpc: do not allow clearing largepages debugfs entry (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}
- [kernel] sched/fair: Fix endless loop in idle_balance() (Phil Auld) [1766087 1740941]
- [kernel] sched: Skip double execution of pick_next_task_fair() (Phil Auld) [1766098 1750819]
- [kernel] sched/fair: Prevent throttling in early pick_next_task_fair() (Phil Auld) [1756267 1740038]
- [kernel] sched: Check for stop task appearance when balancing happens (Phil Auld) [1756267 1740038]
- [kernel] sched/core: Fix endless loop in pick_next_task() (Phil Auld) [1756267 1740038]
- [kernel] sched/fair: Push down check for high priority class task into idle_balance() (Phil Auld) [1756267 1740038]
- [kernel] sched/rt: Fix picking RT and DL tasks from empty queue (Phil Auld) [1756267 1740038]
- [kernel] sched/core: Allow __sched_setscheduler() in interrupts when PI is not used (Phil Auld) [1756265 1722234]
- [kernel] sched, dl: Convert switched_{from, to}_dl() / prio_changed_dl() to balance callbacks (Phil Auld) [1756265 1722234]
- [kernel] sched,dl: Remove return value from pull_dl_task() (Phil Auld) [1756265 1722234]
- [kernel] sched, rt: Convert switched_{from, to}_rt() / prio_changed_rt() to balance callbacks (Phil Auld) [1756265 1722234]
- [kernel] sched,rt: Remove return value from pull_rt_task() (Phil Auld) [1756265 1722234]
- [kernel] sched: Allow balance callbacks for check_class_changed() (Phil Auld) [1756265 1722234]
- [kernel] sched: Use replace normalize_task() with __sched_setscheduler() (Phil Auld) [1756265 1722234]
- [kernel] sched: Handle priority boosted tasks proper in setscheduler() (Phil Auld) [1756265 1722234]
- [kernel] sched: Fix broken setscheduler() (Phil Auld) [175626

Fixed packages 13

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 7 bpftool 0:3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel 0:3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-abi-whitelists 0:3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-debug 0:3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-debug-devel 0:3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-devel 0:3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-doc 0:3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-headers 0:3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-tools 0:3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-tools-libs 0:3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 perf 0:3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 python-perf 0:3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7

Vulnerabilities 2