ELSA-2021-4404 - kexec-tools security, bug fix, and enhancement update
| Type: | SECURITY |
| Severity: | LOW |
| Release Date: | 2021-11-16 |
Description
[2.0.20-57.0.3]
- Merge 8.4 extra patches for SB boot environment [Orabug: 33512440]
[2.0.20-57.0.2]
- Merge SRPM/ol8-u4 orabug patches into SRPM/ol8-u5 [Orabug: 33471981]
[2.0.20-57.0.1]
- makedumpfile: Add support for newer kernels up to v5.12 [Orabug: 33250117]
[2.0.20-57]
- kdumpctl: enable secure boot on ppc64le LPARs
[2.0.20-56]
- kdumpctl: fix a typo
[2.0.20-55]
- kdump/ppc64: migration action registration clean up
[2.0.20-54]
- kdump/ppc64: rebuild initramfs image after migration
- Check the existence of /sys/bus/ccwgroup/devices/*/online beforehand
- kdump.sysconfig.s390: Remove 'prot_virt' from kdump kernel cmdline
[2.0.20-53]
- check for invalid physical address of /proc/kcore when making ELF dumpfile
- check for invalid physical address of /proc/kcore when finding max_paddr
- fix format issue in find_online_znet_device
- check the existence of /sys/bus/ccwgroup/devices before trying to find online network device
- kdump-lib.sh: fix a warning in prepare_kdump_bootinfo()
[2.0.20-52]
- Write to /var/lib/kdump if not writable
- Iterate /sys/bus/ccwgroup/devices to tell if we should set up rd.znet
- mkdumprd: display the absolute path of dump location in the check_user_configured_target()
[2.0.20-51]
- Stop reloading kdump service on CPU hotplug event for FADump
- fadump: improve fadump-howto.txt about remote dump target setup
[2.0.20-50]
- rd.route should use the name from kdump_setup_ifname
- get kdump ifname once in kdump_install_netdev
[2.0.20-49]
- kdump-lib.sh: fix the case if no enough total RAM for kdump in get_recommend_size()
[2.0.20-48]
- kdumpctl: Add kdumpctl estimate
- mkdumprd: make use of the new get_luks_crypt_dev helper
- kdump-lib.sh: introduce a helper to get all crypt dev used by kdump
- kdump-lib.sh: introduce a helper to get underlying crypt device
- RHEL-only: keep total memory size coherent to RHEL-only kernel patch
- Show write byte size in report messages
- Add shorthand --show-stats option to show report stats
- Add --dry-run option to prevent writing the dumpfile
- kdump-lib.sh: introduce functions to return recommened mem size
[2.0.20-47]
- Implement IP netmask calculation to replace 'ipcalc -m'
- kdumpctl: fix check_config error when kdump.conf is empty
- Fix incorrect vmcore permissions when dumped through ssh
- Fix incorrect permissions on kdump dmesg file
Related CVEs
Updated Packages
| Release/Architecture | Filename | MD5sum | Superseded By Advisory |
|
| Oracle Linux 8 (aarch64) | kexec-tools-2.0.20-57.0.3.el8.src.rpm | e4124679deef5ece1b0ae7202463cdba | - |
| kexec-tools-2.0.20-57.0.3.el8.aarch64.rpm | bdb1f7e5faf92300f3794c4df2acd6d8 | - |
|
| Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64) | kexec-tools-2.0.20-57.0.3.el8.src.rpm | e4124679deef5ece1b0ae7202463cdba | - |
| kexec-tools-2.0.20-57.0.3.el8.x86_64.rpm | 2e21b1a068a527115ca5aebec93d5872 | - |
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