ELSA-2021-9008 - Unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container security update
| Type: | SECURITY |
| Severity: | IMPORTANT |
| Release Date: | 2021-01-12 |
Description
[4.14.35-2025.404.1.1.el7]
- target: fix XCOPY NAA identifier lookup (David Disseldorp) [Orabug: 32248040]
{CVE-2020-28374}
[4.14.35-2025.404.1.el7]
- xenbus/xenbus_backend: Disallow pending watch messages (SeongJae Park) [Orabug: 32253412] {CVE-2020-29568}
- xen/xenbus: Count pending messages for each watch (SeongJae Park) [Orabug: 32253412] {CVE-2020-29568}
- xen/xenbus/xen_bus_type: Support will_handle watch callback (SeongJae Park) [Orabug: 32253412] {CVE-2020-29568}
- xen/xenbus: Add 'will_handle' callback support in xenbus_watch_path() (SeongJae Park) [Orabug: 32253412] {CVE-2020-29568}
- xen/xenbus: Allow watches discard events before queueing (SeongJae Park) [Orabug: 32253412] {CVE-2020-29568}
- xen-blkback: set ring->xenblkd to NULL after kthread_stop() (Pawel Wieczorkiewicz) [Orabug: 32260256] {CVE-2020-29569}
[4.14.35-2025.404.0.el7]
- vhost scsi: Add support for LUN resets. (Mike Christie) [Orabug: 32201584]
- vhost/scsi: Use copy_to_iter() to send control queue response (Bijan Mottahedeh) [Orabug: 32201584]
- vhost scsi: add lun parser helper (Mike Christie) [Orabug: 32201584]
- scsi: sd: Allow user to configure command retries (Mike Christie) [Orabug: 32201584]
- scsi: core: Add limitless cmd retry support (Mike Christie) [Orabug: 32201584]
[4.14.35-2025.403.5.el7]
- dm crypt: Allow unaligned bio buffer lengths for skcipher devices (Sudhakar Panneerselvam) [Orabug: 32210463]
- mm: thp: make the THP mapcount atomic against __split_huge_pmd_locked() (Andrea Arcangeli) [Orabug: 32212583] {CVE-2020-29368}
- perf/core: Fix race in the perf_mmap_close() function (Jiri Olsa) [Orabug: 32233358] {CVE-2020-14351}
[4.14.35-2025.403.4.el7]
- icmp: randomize the global rate limiter (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 32227961] {CVE-2020-25705}
- ocfs2: initialize ip_next_orphan (Wengang Wang) [Orabug: 32159055]
- hv_netvsc: make recording RSS hash depend on feature flag (Stephen Hemminger) [Orabug: 32159975]
- hv_netvsc: record hardware hash in skb (Stephen Hemminger) [Orabug: 32159975]
- Fonts: Support FONT_EXTRA_WORDS macros for built-in fonts (Peilin Ye) [Orabug: 32176263] {CVE-2020-28915}
- fbdev, newport_con: Move FONT_EXTRA_WORDS macros into linux/font.h (Peilin Ye) [Orabug: 32176263] {CVE-2020-28915}
- block: Fix use-after-free in blkdev_get() (Jason Yan) [Orabug: 32194608] {CVE-2020-15436}
- serial: 8250: fix null-ptr-deref in serial8250_start_tx() (Yang Yingliang) [Orabug: 32194712] {CVE-2020-15437}
- staging: rts5208: rename SG_END macro (Arnd Bergmann) [Orabug: 32218496]
- misc: rtsx: rename SG_END macro (Arnd Bergmann) [Orabug: 32218496]
[4.14.35-2025.403.3.el7]
- 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.el7]
- 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}
- 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.el7]
- 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.el7]
- 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]
- 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]
Related CVEs
Updated Packages
| Release/Architecture | Filename | MD5sum | Superseded By Advisory |
|
| Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64) | kernel-uek-container-4.14.35-2025.404.1.1.el7.src.rpm | 05458d5290cdeead7c2c1462822d3ca6 | ELSA-2021-9221 |
| kernel-uek-container-4.14.35-2025.404.1.1.el7.x86_64.rpm | 8a44a863f5a8a28f064f445477af4355 | ELSA-2021-9221 |
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