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ELSA-2020-5995

ELSA-2020-5995 - Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

Type:SECURITY
Severity:IMPORTANT
Release Date:2020-12-14

Description


[4.14.35-2025.403.3]
- RDMA/umem: Move to allocate SG table from pages (Maor Gottlieb) [Orabug: 32005117]
- lib/scatterlist: Add support in dynamic allocation of SG table from pages (Maor Gottlieb) [Orabug: 32005117]
- lib/scatterlist: Add SG_CHAIN and SG_END macros for LSB encodings (Anshuman Khandual) [Orabug: 32005117]
- lib/scatterlist: Avoid potential scatterlist entry overflow (Tvrtko Ursulin) [Orabug: 32005117]
- lib/scatterlist: Fix offset type in sg_alloc_table_from_pages (Tvrtko Ursulin) [Orabug: 32005117]
- uek-rpm: Don't build emb2 kernel for mips (Dave Kleikamp) [Orabug: 32176889]
- vt: Disable KD_FONT_OP_COPY (Daniel Vetter) [Orabug: 32187748] {CVE-2020-28974}
- page_frag: Recover from memory pressure (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 32201999]
- xen/events: block rogue events for some time (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 32177538] {CVE-2020-27673}
- xen/events: defer eoi in case of excessive number of events (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 32177538] {CVE-2020-27673}
- xen/events: use a common cpu hotplug hook for event channels (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 32177538] {CVE-2020-27673}
- xen/events: switch user event channels to lateeoi model (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 32177538] {CVE-2020-27673}
- xen/pciback: use lateeoi irq binding (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 32177538] {CVE-2020-27673}
- xen/pvcallsback: use lateeoi irq binding (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 32177538] {CVE-2020-27673}
- xen/scsiback: use lateeoi irq binding (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 32177538] {CVE-2020-27673}
- xen/netback: use lateeoi irq binding (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 32177538] {CVE-2020-27673}
- xen/blkback: use lateeoi irq binding (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 32177538] {CVE-2020-27673}
- xen/events: add a new 'late EOI' evtchn framework (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 32177538] {CVE-2020-27673}
- xen/events: fix race in evtchn_fifo_unmask() (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 32177538] {CVE-2020-27673}
- xen/events: add a proper barrier to 2-level uevent unmasking (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 32177538] {CVE-2020-27673}
- xen/events: avoid removing an event channel while handling it (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 32177548]

[4.14.35-2025.403.2]
- tty: make FONTX ioctl use the tty pointer they were actually passed (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 32122729] {CVE-2020-25668}
- vt: keyboard, extend func_buf_lock to readers (Jiri Slaby) [Orabug: 32122952] {CVE-2020-25656} {CVE-2020-25656}
- vt: keyboard, simplify vt_kdgkbsent (Jiri Slaby) [Orabug: 32122952] {CVE-2020-25656}
- perf/core: Fix a memory leak in perf_event_parse_addr_filter() (kiyin) [Orabug: 32131175] {CVE-2020-25704}
- perf/core: Fix bad use of igrab() (Song Liu) [Orabug: 32131175] {CVE-2020-25704}
- IB/mlx4: Adjust delayed work when a dup is observed (Hakon Bugge) [Orabug: 32136898]
- IB/mlx4: Add support for REJ due to timeout (Hakon Bugge) [Orabug: 32136898]
- IB/mlx4: Fix starvation in paravirt mux/demux (Hakon Bugge) [Orabug: 32136898]
- IB/mlx4: Separate tunnel and wire bufs parameters (Hakon Bugge) [Orabug: 32136898]
- IB/mlx4: Add support for MRA (Hakon Bugge) [Orabug: 32136898]
- IB/mlx4: Add and improve logging (Hakon Bugge) [Orabug: 32136898]
- xen/gntdev: fix up blockable calls to mn_invl_range_start (Michal Hocko) [Orabug: 32139244]

[4.14.35-2025.403.1]
- lockdown: By default run in integrity mode. (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) [Orabug: 32131561]
- Revert 'iomap: Fix pipe page leakage during splicing' (George Kennedy) [Orabug: 32136519]
- kernel: add panic_on_taint (Rafael Aquini) [Orabug: 32138016]
- Revert 'pci: hardcode enumeration' (Dave Aldridge) [Orabug: 32152249]
- hv_utils: drain the timesync packets on onchannelcallback (Vineeth Pillai) [Orabug: 32152144]
- hv_utils: return error if host timesysnc update is stale (Vineeth Pillai) [Orabug: 32152144]

[4.14.35-2025.403.0]
- powercap: restrict energy meter to root access (Kanth Ghatraju) [Orabug: 32138487] {CVE-2020-8694} {CVE-2020-8695}
- Btrfs: fix selftests failure due to uninitialized i_mode in test inodes (Filipe Manana) [Orabug: 31864726]
- btrfs: fix return value mixup in btrfs_get_extent (Pavel Machek) [Orabug: 31864726]
- btrfs: inode: Verify inode mode to avoid NULL pointer dereference (Qu Wenruo) [Orabug: 31864726] {CVE-2019-19816}
- x86/apic: Get rid of multi CPU affinity (Thomas Gleixner) [Orabug: 31975320]
- hv_netvsc: Set probe mode to sync (Haiyang Zhang) [Orabug: 32132413]
- net/rds: Check for NULL rds_ibdev in rds_ib_rx() only if rds_ib_srq_enabled (Sharath Srinivasan) [Orabug: 32113843]
- perf symbols: Check if we read regular file in dso__load() (Jiri Olsa) [Orabug: 30696035]
- rds: Restore MR use-once semantics (Hakon Bugge) [Orabug: 31990092] [Orabug: 31990095]
- rds: Fix incorrect cmsg status and use-after-free (Hakon Bugge) [Orabug: 32003078] [Orabug: 32003081]
- dm cache: remove all obsolete writethrough-specific code (Mike Snitzer) [Orabug: 32010352]
- dm cache: pass cache structure to mode functions (Mike Snitzer) [Orabug: 32010352]
- dm rq: don't call blk_mq_queue_stopped() in dm_stop_queue() (Ming Lei) [Orabug: 32010352]
- bcache: allocate meta data pages as compound pages (Coly Li) [Orabug: 32010352]
- md/raid5: Fix Force reconstruct-write io stuck in degraded raid5 (ChangSyun Peng) [Orabug: 32010352]
- bcache: fix super block seq numbers comparision in register_cache_set() (Coly Li) [Orabug: 32010352]
- md-cluster: fix wild pointer of unlock_all_bitmaps() (Zhao Heming) [Orabug: 32010352]
- dm: use noio when sending kobject event (Mikulas Patocka) [Orabug: 32010352]
- dm zoned: assign max_io_len correctly (Hou Tao) [Orabug: 32010352]
- md: add feature flag MD_FEATURE_RAID0_LAYOUT (NeilBrown) [Orabug: 32010352]
- dm zoned: return NULL if dmz_get_zone_for_reclaim() fails to find a zone (Hannes Reinecke) [Orabug: 32010352]
- dm mpath: switch paths in dm_blk_ioctl() code path (Martin Wilck) [Orabug: 32010352]
- dm crypt: avoid truncating the logical block size (Eric Biggers) [Orabug: 32010352]
- md: don't flush workqueue unconditionally in md_open (Guoqing Jiang) [Orabug: 32010352]
- x86/mce/therm_throt: Undo thermal polling properly on CPU offline (Thomas Gleixner) [Orabug: 32010658]
- x86/mce/therm_throt: Do not access uninitialized therm_work (Chuansheng Liu) [Orabug: 32010658]
- x86/mce/therm_throt: Mark throttle_active_work() as __maybe_unused (Arnd Bergmann) [Orabug: 32010658]
- x86/mce/therm_throt: Mask out read-only and reserved MSR bits (Srinivas Pandruvada) [Orabug: 32010658]
- x86/mce/therm_throt: Optimize notifications of thermal throttle (Srinivas Pandruvada) [Orabug: 32010658]
- jiffies: add utility function to calculate delta in ms (Matteo Croce) [Orabug: 32010658]
- rds: Force ordering of {set,clear}_bit operating on m_flags (Hakon Bugge) [Orabug: 31505749] [Orabug: 32014809]
- rds: Do not send canceled operations to the transport layer (Hakon Bugge) [Orabug: 31505749] [Orabug: 32014809]
- rds: Introduce rds_conn_to_path helper (Hakon Bugge) [Orabug: 31505749] [Orabug: 32014809]
- Revert 'RDS: Drop the connection as part of cancel to avoid hangs' (Hakon Bugge) [Orabug: 31505749] [Orabug: 32014809]
- Revert 'rds: fix warning in rds_send_drop_to()' (Hakon Bugge) [Orabug: 31505749] [Orabug: 32014809]
- Revert 'rds: Use correct conn when dropping connections due to cancel' (Hakon Bugge) [Orabug: 31505749] [Orabug: 32014809]
- Revert 'rds: prevent use-after-free of rds conn in rds_send_drop_to()' (Hakon Bugge) [Orabug: 31505749] [Orabug: 32014809]
- Revert 'rds: Use bitmap to designate dropped connections' (Hakon Bugge) [Orabug: 31505749] [Orabug: 32014809]
- Bluetooth: A2MP: Fix not initializing all members (Luiz Augusto von Dentz) [Orabug: 32021288] {CVE-2020-12352}
- x86/kvm: move kvm_load/put_guest_xcr0 into atomic context (WANG Chao) [Orabug: 32021855]
- arm64: Corrects warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code (John Donnelly) [Orabug: 32040061]
- hwrng: cavium: Corrects warning: unused variable 'dev_id' (John Donnelly) [Orabug: 32040066]
- Lock down /proc/kcore (redux!) (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) [Orabug: 32053127]
- lockdown: Lock down perf when in confidentiality mode (David Howells) [Orabug: 32053127]
- Lock down kprobes (redux!) (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) [Orabug: 32053127]
- debugfs: whitelist spectre mitigation when locked down (Eric Snowberg) [Orabug: 32053127]
- debugfs: Return -EPERM when locked down (Eric Snowberg) [Orabug: 32053127]
- debugfs: Restrict debugfs when the kernel is locked down (David Howells) [Orabug: 32053127]
- lockdown: Add __kernel_is_confidentiality_mode to figure out whether .. (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) [Orabug: 32053127]
- dtrace: Restrict access when the kernel is locked down in confidentiality mode (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) [Orabug: 32053127]
- bpf: Restrict bpf when kernel lockdown is in confidentiality mode (David Howells) [Orabug: 32053127]
- security: Add a static lockdown policy LSM [diet-version] (Matthew Garrett) [Orabug: 32053127]
- net/rds: Check for NULL rid_dev_rem_complete (Ka-Cheong Poon) [Orabug: 32058618]
- scsi: Corrects warning: passing argument 1 of 'wwn_to_u64' mismatch (John Donnelly) [Orabug: 32059622]
- ipvlan: Corrects warning: label 'unregister_netdev' defined but not used (John Donnelly) [Orabug: 32059740]
- mm, compaction: raise compaction priority after it withdrawns (Vlastimil Babka) [Orabug: 32065218]
- mm, reclaim: cleanup should_continue_reclaim() (Vlastimil Babka) [Orabug: 32065218]
- mm, reclaim: make should_continue_reclaim perform dryrun detection (Hillf Danton) [Orabug: 32065218]
- KVM: Drop 'const' attribute from old memslot in commit_memory_region() (Sean Christopherson) [Orabug: 32068898]
- octeontx2-pf: Return proper RSS indirection table size always (Sunil Goutham) [Orabug: 32095651]
- octeontx2-af: Free RVU REE irq properly (Smadar Fuks) [Orabug: 32095651]
- octeontx2-af: Free RVU NIX IRQs properly. (Rakesh Babu) [Orabug: 32095651]
- octeontx2-af: Fix the BPID mask (Subbaraya Sundeep) [Orabug: 32095651]
- octeontx2-pf: Fix receive buffer size calculation (Sunil Goutham) [Orabug: 32095651]
- octeontx2-af: Fix updating wrong multicast list index in NIX_RX_ACTION (Naveen Mamindlapalli) [Orabug: 32095651]
- octeontx2-af: Ratelimit prints from AF error interrupt handlers (Naveen Mamindlapalli) [Orabug: 32095651]
- octeontx2-pf: Avoid null pointer dereference (Subbaraya Sundeep) [Orabug: 32095651]
- octeontx2-af: Check the msix offset return value (Subbaraya Sundeep) [Orabug: 32095651]
- octeontx2-af: make tx nibble fixup is always apply (Stanislaw Kardach) [Orabug: 32095651]
- octeontx2-af: Stop kpu parsing at layer3 for ipv6 fragmented packets. (Abhijit Ayarekar) [Orabug: 32095651]
- octeontx2-pf: Call mbox_reset before incrementing ack (Hariprasad Kelam) [Orabug: 32095651]
- octeontx2-af: Simplify otx2_mbox_reset call (Hariprasad Kelam) [Orabug: 32095651]
- A/A Bonding: Increase number and interval of GARPs sent by rdmaip (Sharath Srinivasan) [Orabug: 32095768]
- net/rds: Force ARP flush upon RDMA_CM_EVENT_ADDR_CHANGE (Gerd Rausch) [Orabug: 32095962]
- rds/ib: Fix: (rds: Deregister all FRWR mr with free_mr) (Manjunath Patil) [Orabug: 32113532]

[4.14.35-2025.402.2]
- ocfs2: fix remounting needed after setfacl command (Gang He)
- Fix multiple variable definition with syzkaller (Hans Westgaard Ry) [Orabug: 32008770]
- drm/vmwgfx: Use the dma scatter-gather iterator to get dma addresses (Thomas Hellstrom) [Orabug: 32010349]
- i40e: Corrects i40e_setup_tc and i40e_xdp defined but not used warnings (John Donnelly) [Orabug: 32034050]
- bnxt: Corrects warning: 'struct tc_cls_flower_offload' (John Donnelly) [Orabug: 32041757]
- SCSI: Corrects 'ret' not used warning (John Donnelly) [Orabug: 32041763]
- IB/mlx4: disable CQ time stamping (aru kolappan) [Orabug: 32042520]
- qed: Corrects warning: 'qed_iwarp_ll2_slowpath' defined but not used (John Donnelly) [Orabug: 32052276]
- ipv6: fix possible use-after-free in ip6_xmit() (Eric Dumazet)


Related CVEs


CVE-2020-12352
CVE-2020-8694
CVE-2020-8695
CVE-2020-25656
CVE-2020-27673
CVE-2020-25668
CVE-2020-25704
CVE-2020-28974
CVE-2019-19816

Updated Packages


Release/ArchitectureFilenameMD5sumSuperseded By Advisory
Oracle Linux 7 (aarch64) kernel-uek-4.14.35-2025.403.3.el7uek.src.rpm9db95a81f25454c41566a3fb36463dc6ELSA-2021-9220
kernel-uek-4.14.35-2025.403.3.el7uek.aarch64.rpm1823f129f75940f5d0d356ffc499cc72ELSA-2021-9220
kernel-uek-debug-4.14.35-2025.403.3.el7uek.aarch64.rpma1e7541b7f2552a9a764f3ea5e6fd849ELSA-2021-9220
kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.14.35-2025.403.3.el7uek.aarch64.rpme459a1bdc818173bd3187fce5773d7bcELSA-2021-9220
kernel-uek-devel-4.14.35-2025.403.3.el7uek.aarch64.rpme349b4ac349d2890a2576e695a1100daELSA-2021-9220
kernel-uek-headers-4.14.35-2025.403.3.el7uek.aarch64.rpm7ff899c94905a0e3e83894a5952de24cELSA-2021-9222
kernel-uek-tools-4.14.35-2025.403.3.el7uek.aarch64.rpm06a39703542f4d9b6f39fa59b5813f8dELSA-2021-9220
kernel-uek-tools-libs-4.14.35-2025.403.3.el7uek.aarch64.rpm28ea11eac447c1f977f49f97c5f52f6eELSA-2021-9220
kernel-uek-tools-libs-devel-4.14.35-2025.403.3.el7uek.aarch64.rpm41333994bcec8eb8a48d715b445662cdELSA-2021-9222
perf-4.14.35-2025.403.3.el7uek.aarch64.rpm5cee05cc4fdfb122cb21556df1948e63ELSA-2021-9220
python-perf-4.14.35-2025.403.3.el7uek.aarch64.rpm1dce64c92a03cd1e8a8ca1da6fd2d3b1ELSA-2021-9220
Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64) kernel-uek-4.14.35-2025.403.3.el7uek.src.rpm9db95a81f25454c41566a3fb36463dc6ELSA-2021-9220
kernel-uek-4.14.35-2025.403.3.el7uek.x86_64.rpm0af8f9b9b6fba7aa2de95696ff5f6fcdELSA-2021-9220
kernel-uek-debug-4.14.35-2025.403.3.el7uek.x86_64.rpmdd4638bf4f28f99ebcd26e78a291a34fELSA-2021-9220
kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.14.35-2025.403.3.el7uek.x86_64.rpmb6e122a4bf9d557cec668c74f80a234fELSA-2021-9220
kernel-uek-devel-4.14.35-2025.403.3.el7uek.x86_64.rpmfc95800340e967047b791cd1b8791a78ELSA-2021-9220
kernel-uek-doc-4.14.35-2025.403.3.el7uek.noarch.rpmbcda97cf7fa66889226c1fcc57264ee6ELSA-2021-9220
kernel-uek-tools-4.14.35-2025.403.3.el7uek.x86_64.rpme5df387ae79fbd60091331251b9d554fELSA-2021-9220



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