Summary
[5.4.17-2011.1.2]
- ctf: discard CTF from the vDSO (Nick Alcock) [Orabug: 31194036]
[5.4.17-2011.1.1]
- slcan: Don't transmit uninitialized stack data in padding (Richard Palethorpe) [Orabug: 31136750] {CVE-2020-11494}
- blktrace: Protect q->blk_trace with RCU (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 31123573] {CVE-2019-19768}
- KVM: x86: clear stale x86_emulate_ctxt->intercept value (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [Orabug: 31118688]
- perf/x86/amd: Add support for Large Increment per Cycle Events (Kim Phillips) [Orabug: 31104924]
- perf/x86/amd: Constrain Large Increment per Cycle events (Kim Phillips) [Orabug: 31104924]
- kvm/svm: PKU not currently supported (John Allen) [Orabug: 31104924]
- KVM: SVM: Override default MMIO mask if memory encryption is enabled (Tom Lendacky) [Orabug: 31104924]
- EDAC/amd64: Drop some family checks for newer systems (Yazen Ghannam) [Orabug: 31104924]
- x86/amd_nb: Add Family 19h PCI IDs (Yazen Ghannam) [Orabug: 31104924]
- EDAC/mce_amd: Always load on SMCA systems (Yazen Ghannam) [Orabug: 31104924]
- x86/MCE/AMD, EDAC/mce_amd: Add new Load Store unit McaType (Yazen Ghannam) [Orabug: 31104924]
- EDAC/amd64: Add family ops for Family 19h Models 00h-0Fh (Yazen Ghannam) [Orabug: 31104924]
- EDAC/amd64: Check for memory before fully initializing an instance (Yazen Ghannam) [Orabug: 31104924]
- EDAC/amd64: Use cached data when checking for ECC (Yazen Ghannam) [Orabug: 31104924]
- EDAC/amd64: Save max number of controllers to family type (Yazen Ghannam) [Orabug: 31104924]
- EDAC/amd64: Gather hardware information early (Yazen Ghannam) [Orabug: 31104924]
- EDAC/amd64: Make struct amd64_family_type global (Yazen Ghannam) [Orabug: 31104924]
- floppy: check FDC index for errors before assigning it (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 31067510] {CVE-2020-9383}
- KVM: SVM: Guard against DEACTIVATE when performing WBINVD/DF_FLUSH (Tom Lendacky) [Orabug: 31012269]
- KVM: SVM: Serialize access to the SEV ASID bitmap (Tom Lendacky) [Orabug: 31012269]
- iommu/vt-d: Allow devices with RMRRs to use identity domain (Lu Baolu) [Orabug: 31127400]
[5.4.17-2011.1.0]
- vhost: Check docket sk_family instead of call getname (Eugenio Perez) [Orabug: 31085989] {CVE-2020-10942}
- selftests/net: add definition for SOL_DCCP to fix compilation errors for old libc (Alan Maguire) [Orabug: 31078892]
- kernel: cpu.c: fix print typo about SMT status (Mihai Carabas) [Orabug: 31053334]
- nfs: optimise readdir cache page invalidation (Dai Ngo) [Orabug: 31044292]
- NFS: Directory page cache pages need to be locked when read (Trond Myklebust) [Orabug: 31044292]
- rds: transport module should be auto loaded when transport is set (Rao Shoaib) [Orabug: 31032126]
- efi: Fix a race and a buffer overflow while reading efivars via sysfs (Vladis Dronov) [Orabug: 31020408]
- net: Support GRO/GSO fraglist chaining. (Steffen Klassert) [Orabug: 30670829]
- net: Add fraglist GRO/GSO feature flags (Steffen Klassert) [Orabug: 30670829]
- udp: Support UDP fraglist GRO/GSO. (Steffen Klassert) [Orabug: 30670829]
- net: remove the check argument from __skb_gro_checksum_convert (Li RongQing) [Orabug: 30670829]
- Revert 'nvme_fc: add module to ops template to allow module references' (John Donnelly) [Orabug: 31119387]
- ext4: add cond_resched() to ext4_protect_reserved_inode (Shijie Luo) [Orabug: 31067112] {CVE-2020-8992}
- dsa: disable module unloading for ARM64 (Allen Pais) [Orabug: 30456791]
- bpf: Undo incorrect __reg_bound_offset32 handling (Daniel Borkmann) [Orabug: 31127385] {CVE-2020-8835}
- bpf: Fix tnum constraints for 32-bit comparisons (Jann Horn) [Orabug: 31127385] {CVE-2020-8835}
Fixed packages 9
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Oracle Linux · 7 | kernel-uek | 0:5.4.17-2011.1.2.el8uek |
| Oracle Linux · 7 | kernel-uek-debug | 0:5.4.17-2011.1.2.el8uek |
| Oracle Linux · 7 | kernel-uek-debug-devel | 0:5.4.17-2011.1.2.el8uek |
| Oracle Linux · 7 | kernel-uek-devel | 0:5.4.17-2011.1.2.el8uek |
| Oracle Linux · 7 | kernel-uek-doc | 0:5.4.17-2011.1.2.el8uek |
| Oracle Linux · 7 | kernel-uek-tools | 0:5.4.17-2011.1.2.el7uek |
| Oracle Linux · 7 | kernel-uek-tools-libs | 0:5.4.17-2011.1.2.el7uek |
| Oracle Linux · 7 | perf | 0:5.4.17-2011.1.2.el7uek |
| Oracle Linux · 7 | python-perf | 0:5.4.17-2011.1.2.el7uek |
Vulnerabilities 6
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High 7.8CVE-2020-8835 Public exploit
Linux kernel bpf verifier vulnerability
In the Linux kernel 5.5.0 and newer, the bpf verifier (kernel/bpf/verifier.c) did not properly restrict the register bounds for 32-bit operations, leading to out-of-bounds reads and writes in kernel memory. The vulnerability also affects the Linux 5.4 stable …
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In the Linux kernel 5.4.0-rc2, there is a use-after-free (read) in the __blk_add_trace function in kernel/trace/blktrac…
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In the Linux kernel before 5.5.8, get_raw_socket in drivers/vhost/net.c lacks validation of an sk_family field, which m…
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An issue was discovered in slc_bump in drivers/net/can/slcan.c in the Linux kernel 3.16 through 5.6.2. It allows attack…
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ext4_protect_reserved_inode in fs/ext4/block_validity.c in the Linux kernel through 5.5.3 allows attackers to cause a d…
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An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 3.16 through 5.5.6. set_fdc in drivers/block/floppy.c leads to a wait_til_r…