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High ELSA-2020-5926 2 CVEs

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

Published Nov 12, 2020 · Updated Nov 12, 2020

Summary

[4.1.12-124.45.2]
- powercap: restrict energy meter to root access (Kanth Ghatraju) [Orabug: 32137965] {CVE-2020-8694} {CVE-2020-8695}

[4.1.12-124.45.1]
- Revert 'x86/efi: Initialize and display UEFI secure boot state a bit later during init' (Eric Snowberg) [Orabug: 31887248]
- xfs: fix xfs_inode use after free (Wengang Wang) [Orabug: 31932452]
- SUNRPC: ECONNREFUSED should cause a rebind. (NeilBrown) [Orabug: 32070175]
- netfilter: nfnetlink: correctly validate length of batch messages (Phil Turnbull) [Orabug: 30658635] {CVE-2016-7917}
- xc2028: Fix use-after-free bug properly (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 30658659] {CVE-2016-7913}
- [media] xc2028: avoid use after free (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [Orabug: 30658659] {CVE-2016-7913}
- uek-rpm: Create initramfs at postinstall stage also. (Somasundaram Krishnasamy) [Orabug: 30821411]
- hdlc_ppp: add range checks in ppp_cp_parse_cr() (Dan Carpenter) [Orabug: 31989190] {CVE-2020-25643}
- tracing: Reverse the order of trace_types_lock and event_mutex (Alan Maguire) [Orabug: 32002706]
- ocfs2/dlm: move lock to the tail of grant queue while doing in-place convert (xuejiufei) [Orabug: 32071234]

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek 0:4.1.12-124.45.2.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-debug 0:4.1.12-124.45.2.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-debug-devel 0:4.1.12-124.45.2.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-devel 0:4.1.12-124.45.2.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-doc 0:4.1.12-124.45.2.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-firmware 0:4.1.12-124.45.2.el7uek

Vulnerabilities 2