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Medium ELSA-2024-3138 48 CVEs

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

Published May 23, 2024 · Updated May 23, 2024

Summary

[4.18.0-553.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 <= 15.3-1.0.3
- Remove upstream reference during boot (Kevin Lyons) [Orabug: 34750652]
- Drop not needed patch

[4.18.0-553]
- cpuhotplug: Fix kABI breakage caused by CPUHP_AP_HYPERV_ONLINE (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [RHEL-35784]

[4.18.0-552]
- i40e: Enforce software interrupt during busy-poll exit (Ivan Vecera) [RHEL-26248]
- i40e: Remove _t suffix from enum type names (Ivan Vecera) [RHEL-26248]

[4.18.0-551]
- x86/sev: Harden #VC instruction emulation somewhat (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [RHEL-30040] {CVE-2024-25743 CVE-2024-25742}
- i40e: Fix VF MAC filter removal (Ivan Vecera) [RHEL-22992]
- i40e: Do not allow untrusted VF to remove administratively set MAC (Ivan Vecera) [RHEL-22992]

[4.18.0-550]
- mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memory_section->usage (Waiman Long) [RHEL-28875 RHEL-28876] {CVE-2023-52489}
- mm: use __pfn_to_section() instead of open coding it (Waiman Long) [RHEL-28875] {CVE-2023-52489}

[4.18.0-549]
- dm-integrity: align the outgoing bio in integrity_recheck (Benjamin Marzinski) [RHEL-29678]
- dm-integrity: fix a memory leak when rechecking the data (Benjamin Marzinski) [RHEL-29678]
- RDMA/mana_ib: Add CQ interrupt support for RAW QP (Maxim Levitsky) [RHEL-23934]
- RDMA/mana_ib: query device capabilities (Maxim Levitsky) [RHEL-23934]
- RDMA/mana_ib: register RDMA device with GDMA (Maxim Levitsky) [RHEL-23934]
- net: mana: add msix index sharing between EQs (Maxim Levitsky) [RHEL-23934]
- net: mana: Fix spelling mistake 'enforecement' -> 'enforcement' (Maxim Levitsky) [RHEL-23934]
- net :mana :Add remaining GDMA stats for MANA to ethtool (Maxim Levitsky) [RHEL-23934]
- net: mana: Fix oversized sge0 for GSO packets (Maxim Levitsky) [RHEL-23934]
- net: mana: Fix TX CQE error handling (Maxim Levitsky) [RHEL-23934]
- net: mana: Add gdma stats to ethtool output for mana (Maxim Levitsky) [RHEL-23934]
- net: mana: Fix MANA VF unload when hardware is unresponsive (Maxim Levitsky) [RHEL-23934]
- net: mana: Configure hwc timeout from hardware (Maxim Levitsky) [RHEL-23934]
- RDMA/mana_ib: Use v2 version of cfg_rx_steer_req to enable RX coalescing (Maxim Levitsky) [RHEL-23934]

[4.18.0-548]
- gitlab-ci: enable arm64/s390x/ppc64le debug builds (Michael Hofmann)
- arm64: Add missing bits of AmpereOne Spectre-BHB mitigation (Mark Salter) [RHEL-29005]
- [rt] enable CONFIG_DRM_MGAG200_IOBURST_WORKAROUND (Jocelyn Falempe) [RHEL-13214]
- drm/mgag200: Add a workaround for low-latency (Jocelyn Falempe) [RHEL-13214]

[4.18.0-547]
- x86/efistub: Avoid placing the kernel below LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/efistub: Give up if memory attribute protocol returns an error (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/boot: Increase section and file alignment to 4k/512 (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/boot: Split off PE/COFF .data section (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/boot: Drop PE/COFF .reloc section (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/boot: Construct PE/COFF .text section from assembler (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/boot: Derive file size from _edata symbol (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/boot/compressed: Remove, discard, or assert for unwanted sections (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/boot: Check that there are no run-time relocations (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/boot: Discard .discard.unreachable for arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/boot: Define setup size in linker script (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/boot: Set EFI handover offset directly in header asm (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/boot: Drop references to startup_64 (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/boot: Drop redundant code setting the root device (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/build: Declutter the build output (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/boot: Omit compression buffer from PE/COFF image memory footprint (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/boot: Mark global variables as static (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- efi/x86: Remove extra headroom for setup block (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/boot: Remove the 'bugger off' message (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/efi: Drop alignment flags from PE section headers (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- efi: Put Linux specific magic number in the DOS header (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- efi/x86: Fix the missing KASLR_FLAG bit in boot_params->hdr.loadflags (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- efi/x86: Avoid physical KASLR on older Dell systems (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/boot: efistub: Assign global boot_params variable (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/boot: Rename conflicting 'boot_params' pointer to 'boot_params_ptr' (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/efistub: Avoid legacy decompressor when doing EFI boot (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/efistub: Perform SNP feature test while running in the firmware (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/sev: Do not try to parse for the CC blob on non-AMD hardware (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- efi/libstub: Add limit argument to efi_random_alloc() (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- arm64: efi: Limit allocations to 48-bit addressable physical region (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- efi: libstub: use EFI_LOADER_CODE region when moving the kernel in memory (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- arm64: efi: kaslr: Fix occasional random alloc (and boot) failure (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- efi/libstub/random: Increase random alloc granularity (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/decompressor: Factor out kernel decompression and relocation (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/decompressor: Move global symbol references to C code (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- decompress: Use 8 byte alignment (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-2505]
- x86/efistub: Prefer EFI memory attributes pro

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bpftool 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-abi-stablelists 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-core 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-cross-headers 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-core 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-devel 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-debug-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-devel 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-doc 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-headers 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-modules-extra 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perf 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-perf 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 48