Synopsis
The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :
- nvme: Drop nvmeq->q_lock before dma_pool_alloc, so as to prevent hard lockups (Aruna Ramakrishna) [Orabug:
25409587]
- nvme: Handle PM1725 HIL reset (Martin K. Petersen) [Orabug: 26277600]
- char: lp: fix possible integer overflow in lp_setup (Willy Tarreau) [Orabug: 26403940] (CVE-2017-1000363)
- ALSA: timer: Fix missing queue indices reset at SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_SELECT (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug:
26403956] (CVE-2017-1000380)
- ALSA: timer: Fix race between read and ioctl (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 26403956] (CVE-2017-1000380)
- ALSA: timer: fix NULL pointer dereference in read/ioctl race (Vegard Nossum) [Orabug: 26403956] (CVE-2017-1000380)
- ALSA: timer: Fix negative queue usage by racy accesses (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 26403956] (CVE-2017-1000380)
- ALSA: timer: Fix race at concurrent reads (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 26403956] (CVE-2017-1000380)
- ALSA: timer: Fix race among timer ioctls (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 26403956] (CVE-2017-1000380)
- ipv6/dccp: do not inherit ipv6_mc_list from parent (WANG Cong) [Orabug: 26404005] (CVE-2017-9077)
- ocfs2: fix deadlock issue when taking inode lock at vfs entry points (Eric Ren) [Orabug: 26427126] - ocfs2/dlmglue: prepare tracking logic to avoid recursive cluster lock (Eric Ren) [Orabug: 26427126] - ping:
implement proper locking (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug:
26540286] (CVE-2017-2671)
- aio: mark AIO pseudo-fs noexec (Jann Horn) [Orabug:
26643598] (CVE-2016-10044)
- vfs: Commit to never having exectuables on proc and sysfs. (Eric W. Biederman) [Orabug: 26643598] (CVE-2016-10044)
- vfs, writeback: replace FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK with SB_I_CGROUPWB (Tejun Heo) [Orabug: 26643598] (CVE-2016-10044)
- x86/acpi: Prevent out of bound access caused by broken ACPI tables (Seunghun Han) [Orabug: 26643645] (CVE-2017-11473)
- sctp: do not inherit ipv6_[mc|ac|fl]_list from parent (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 26650883] (CVE-2017-9075)
- [media] saa7164: fix double fetch PCIe access condition (Steven Toth) [Orabug: 26675142] (CVE-2017-8831)
- [media] saa7164: fix sparse warnings (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 26675142] (CVE-2017-8831)
- fs: __generic_file_splice_read retry lookup on AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE (Abhi Das) [Orabug: 26797306] - timerfd: Protect the might cancel mechanism proper (Thomas Gleixner) [Orabug: 26899787] (CVE-2017-10661)
- scsi: scsi_transport_iscsi: fix the issue that iscsi_if_rx doesn't parse nlmsg properly (Xin Long) [Orabug: 26988627] (CVE-2017-14489)
Solution
Update the affected kernel-uek / kernel-uek-firmware packages.