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High ELSA-2019-4636 4 CVEs

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

Published May 14, 2019 · Updated May 14, 2019

Summary

kernel-uek
[3.8.13-118.33.2]
- x86/speculation/mds: Make cpu_matches() __cpuinit (Patrick Colp) [Orabug: 29751729] {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127} {CVE-2019-11091}
- x86/speculation/mds: Only worry about firmware loaded microcode (Patrick Colp) [Orabug: 29641784] {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127} {CVE-2019-11091}

[3.8.13-118.33.1]
- x86/mds: Add empty commit for CVE-2019-11091 (Patrick Colp) [Orabug: 29721936] {CVE-2019-11091}
- x86/speculation/mds: Fix comment (Boris Ostrovsky) [Orabug: 29641784] {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
- x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation mode VMWERV (Thomas Gleixner) [Orabug: 29641784] {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
- x86/speculation/mds: Add sysfs reporting for MDS (Thomas Gleixner) [Orabug: 29641784] {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
- x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation control for MDS (Thomas Gleixner) [Orabug: 29641784] {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
- x86/speculation/mds: Allow runtime checking of CPU features (Patrick Colp) [Orabug: 29641784] {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
- x86/speculation/mds: Improve coverage for MDS vulnerability (Boris Ostrovsky) [Orabug: 29641784] {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
- x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user (Thomas Gleixner) [Orabug: 29641784] {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
- x86/speculation/mds: Add mds_clear_cpu_buffers() (Thomas Gleixner) [Orabug: 29641784] {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
- x86/speculation/mds: Add BUG_MSBDS_ONLY (Thomas Gleixner) [Orabug: 29641784] {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
- x86/speculation/mds: Add basic bug infrastructure for MDS (Andi Kleen) [Orabug: 29641784] {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127} {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
- x86/speculation: Consolidate CPU whitelists (Thomas Gleixner) [Orabug: 29641784] {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}

Fixed packages 8

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 7 dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.33.2.el6uek 0:0.4.5-3.el6
Oracle Linux · 7 dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.33.2.el7uek 0:0.4.5-3.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek 0:3.8.13-118.33.2.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-debug 0:3.8.13-118.33.2.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-debug-devel 0:3.8.13-118.33.2.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-devel 0:3.8.13-118.33.2.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-doc 0:3.8.13-118.33.2.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-firmware 0:3.8.13-118.33.2.el7uek

Vulnerabilities 4