kernel (SL7)

Synopsis: Important: kernel security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2022:4642-1
Issue Date: 2022-05-19
CVE Numbers: CVE-2022-0492

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: cgroups v1 release_agent feature may allow privilege escalation
(CVE-2022-0492)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE

Bug Fix(es):

* kernel panic in mlx5_ib driver SL/CentOS 7.9 VM

* [SL-7.9] Get Call Trace about “kernel/timer.c:1270
requeue_timers+0x15e/0x170” on specified AMD x86_64 system

* kernel NULL pointer dereference while calling dma_pool_alloc from the
mlx5_core module

* EL 7.9 NFS Clients takes very long time to resume operations in an NFS
Server failover scenario

* perf stat shows unsupported counters for Intel IceLake cpu

SL7
x86_64
bpftool-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
bpftool-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
noarch
kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-doc-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.noarch.rpm

– Scientific Linux Development Team