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An unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update has been released for Oracle Linux 6.



El-errata: ELSA-2021-9043 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2021-9043

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2021-9043.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 have been uploaded to the
Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.330.1.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-400.330.1.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-400.330.1.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-400.330.1.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-400.330.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-400.330.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-400.330.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-400.330.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.330.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-400.330.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-400.330.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-400.330.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.330.1.el6uek.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[2.6.39-400.330.1.el6uek]
- mwifiex: Fix possible buffer overflows in
mwifiex_cmd_802_11_ad_hoc_start (Zhang Xiaohui) [Orabug: 32349211]
{CVE-2020-36158}

[2.6.39-400.329.1.el6uek]
- Fonts: Support FONT_EXTRA_WORDS macros for built-in fonts (Peilin Ye)
[Orabug: 32176268] {CVE-2020-28915}
- fbdev, newport_con: Move FONT_EXTRA_WORDS macros into linux/font.h
(Peilin Ye) [Orabug: 32176268] {CVE-2020-28915}
- vt: Disable KD_FONT_OP_COPY (Daniel Vetter) [Orabug: 32187752]
{CVE-2020-28974}
- vt: sort out locking for font handling (Alan Cox) [Orabug: 32187752]
{CVE-2020-28974}