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Medium ELSA-2021-5227 1 CVE

Moderate: kernel security and bug fix update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Dec 22, 2021 · Updated Dec 22, 2021

Summary

[4.18.0-348.7.1_5.OL8]
- Update Oracle Linux certificates (Kevin Lyons)
- Disable signing for aarch64 (Ilya Okomin)
- 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]
- Conflict with shim-ia32 and shim-x64 <= 15-11.0.5

[4.18.0-348.7.1_5]
- sched: Fix CPU hotplug / tighten is_per_cpu_kthread() (Waiman Long) [2026450 2024869]
- sched: Prepare to use balance_push in ttwu() (Waiman Long) [2026450 2024869]
- sched: Don't run cpu-online with balance_push() enabled (Waiman Long) [2026450 2024869]
- workqueue: Tag bound workers with KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU (Waiman Long) [2026450 2024869]
- workqueue: Use cpu_possible_mask instead of cpu_active_mask to break affinity (Waiman Long) [2026450 2024869]
- sched: Fix hotplug vs CPU bandwidth control (Waiman Long) [2026450 2024869]
- workqueue: Manually break affinity on hotplug (Waiman Long) [2026450 2024869]
- sched/hotplug: Consolidate task migration on CPU unplug (Waiman Long) [2026450 2024869]
- sched/core: Wait for tasks being pushed away on hotplug (Waiman Long) [2026450 2024869]

[4.18.0-348.6.1_5]
- x86/Kconfig: Do not enable AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT automatically (Prarit Bhargava) [2024678 2021219]

[4.18.0-348.5.1_5]
- blk-mq: still set q->make_request_fn for blk-mq (Ming Lei) [2016384 1999728]

[4.18.0-348.4.1_5]
- [RHEL8.6 BZ 1849234] cifs: report error instead of invalid when revalidating a dentry fails (Ronnie Sahlberg) [2017177 1849234]
- kthread: Fix PF_KTHREAD vs to_kthread() race (Waiman Long) [2010333 2001497]
- sched/fair: Ignore percpu threads for imbalance pulls (Waiman Long) [2010333 2001497]
- kthread: Extract KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU (Waiman Long) [2010333 2001497]
- sched: Optimize finish_lock_switch() (Waiman Long) [2010333 2001497]
- sched/hotplug: Ensure only per-cpu kthreads run during hotplug (Waiman Long) [2010333 2001497]
- sched: Fix balance_callback() (Waiman Long) [2010333 2001497]

[4.18.0-348.3.1_5]
- net-sysfs: try not to restart the syscall if it will fail eventually (Antoine Tenart) [2021165 2016005]
- ovl: fix missing negative dentry check in ovl_rename() (Miklos Szeredi) [2016378 2010887 2013318] {CVE-2021-20321}

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-core 0:4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-cross-headers 0:4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-headers 0:4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5
Oracle Linux · 8 perf 0:4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-perf 0:4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5

Vulnerabilities 1