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Medium ELSA-2024-10939 7 CVEs

Moderate: kernel security update (Oracle Linux 9)

Published Dec 11, 2024 · Updated Dec 11, 2024

Summary

[5.14.0-503.16.1_5.OL9]
- Disable UKI signing [Orabug: 36571828]
- 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 <= 15.3-1.0.5
- Remove upstream reference during boot (Kevin Lyons) [Orabug: 34729535]
- Add Oracle Linux IMA certificates

[5.14.0-503.16.1_5]
- s390/dasd: fix error recovery leading to data corruption on ESE devices (Mete Durlu) [RHEL-64902 RHEL-55873]
- net/smc: fix illegal rmb_desc access in SMC-D connection dump (Steve Best) [RHEL-65436 RHEL-27748] {CVE-2024-26615}
- gitlab-ci: use zstream builder container image (Michael Hofmann)
- netfilter: nft_payload: sanitize offset and length before calling skb_checksum() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-66856] {CVE-2024-50251}
- net: avoid potential underflow in qdisc_pkt_len_init() with UFO (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-65401] {CVE-2024-49949}
- block: initialize integrity buffer to zero before writing it to media (Ming Lei) [RHEL-58761 RHEL-54768] {CVE-2024-43854}
- proc: fix dentry/inode overinstantiating under /proc//net (Joel Savitz) [RHEL-62824 RHEL-57703]
- iommu: Restore lost return in iommu_report_device_fault() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-67364] {CVE-2024-44994}
- net: ena: Extend customer metrics reporting support (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-66933 RHEL-59968]
- net: ena: Add ENA Express metrics support (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-66933 RHEL-59968]
- xsk: fix batch alloc API on non-coherent systems (Felix Maurer) [RHEL-59884 RHEL-58954]
- selinux,smack: don't bypass permissions check in inode_setsecctx hook (Ondrej Mosnacek) [RHEL-66106] {CVE-2024-46695}
- PCI/AER: Disable AER service on suspend (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-67037 RHEL-22265]
- ACPI: PM: s2idle: Evaluate all Low-Power S0 Idle _DSM functions (Mark Langsdorf) [RHEL-67037 RHEL-54149]
- mptcp: fallback when MPTCP opts are dropped after 1st data (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-62216 RHEL-62218]
- cpufreq: amd-pstate: add check for cpufreq_cpu_get's return value (David Arcari) [RHEL-61469 RHEL-45016]
- cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add the missing cpufreq_cpu_put() (David Arcari) [RHEL-61469 RHEL-45016]
- cpufreq/amd-pstate: Fix the scaling_max_freq setting on shared memory CPPC systems (David Arcari) [RHEL-61469 RHEL-45016]
- cpufreq/amd-pstate-ut: Convert nominal_freq to khz during comparisons (David Arcari) [RHEL-61469 RHEL-45016]
- cpufreq/amd-pstate: fix setting policy current frequency value (David Arcari) [RHEL-61469 RHEL-45016]
- netfilter: flowtable: initialise extack before use (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-58545] {CVE-2024-45018}

Fixed packages 30

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 9 bpftool 0:7.4.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-core 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-cross-headers 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-core 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-devel 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-devel-matched 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-modules 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-modules-core 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-debug-uki-virt 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-devel 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-devel-matched 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-doc 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-headers 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-modules 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-modules-core 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-modules-extra 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-tools 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-tools-libs 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-uki-virt 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 kernel-uki-virt-addons 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 libperf 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 perf 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 python3-perf 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 rtla 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5
Oracle Linux · 9 rv 0:5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5

Vulnerabilities 7

  • Critical 9.8

    selinux,smack: don't bypass permissions check in inode_setsecctx hook

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: selinux,smack: don't bypass permissions check in inode_setsecctx hook Marek Gresko reports that the root user on an NFS client is able to change the security labels on files on an NFS filesys…

  • High 8.8

    iommu: Restore lost return in iommu_report_device_fault()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu: Restore lost return in iommu_report_device_fault() When iommu_report_device_fault gets called with a partial fault it is supposed to collect the fault into the group and then return. I…

  • Unscored —

    net/smc: fix illegal rmb_desc access in SMC-D connection dump

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/smc: fix illegal rmb_desc access in SMC-D connection dump A crash was found when dumping SMC-D connections. It can be reproduced by following steps: - run nginx/wrk test: smc_run nginx sm…

  • Unscored —

    block: initialize integrity buffer to zero before writing it to media

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: initialize integrity buffer to zero before writing it to media Metadata added by bio_integrity_prep is using plain kmalloc, which leads to random kernel memory being written media. For…

  • Unscored —

    netfilter: flowtable: initialise extack before use

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: flowtable: initialise extack before use Fix missing initialisation of extack in flow offload.

  • Unscored —

    net: avoid potential underflow in qdisc_pkt_len_init() with UFO

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: avoid potential underflow in qdisc_pkt_len_init() with UFO After commit 7c6d2ecbda83 ("net: be more gentle about silly gso requests coming from user") virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() had sanity …

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2024-50251 Public exploit

    netfilter: nft_payload: sanitize offset and length before calling skb_checksum()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nft_payload: sanitize offset and length before calling skb_checksum() If access to offset + length is larger than the skbuff length, then skb_checksum() triggers BUG_ON(). skb_chec…