The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2020-4553 advisory.

    [239-40.0.1]
    - backport upstream pstore tmpfiles patch [Orabug: 31420486]
    - udev rules: fix memory hot add and remove [Orabug: 31310273]
    - fix to enable systemd-pstore.service [Orabug: 30951066]
    - journal: change support URL shown in the catalog entries [Orabug: 30853009]
    - fix to generate systemd-pstore.service file [Orabug: 30230056]
    - fix _netdev is missing for iscsi entry in /etc/fstab (tony.l.lam@oracle.com) [Orabug: 25897792]
    - set 'RemoveIPC=no' in logind.conf as default for OL7.2 [Orabug: 22224874]
    - allow dm remove ioctl to co-operate with UEK3 (Vaughan Cao) [Orabug: 18467469]
    - add hv dynamic memory support (Jerry Snitselaar) [Orabug: 18621475]
    - Backport upstream patches for the new systemd-pstore tool (Eric DeVolder) [OraBug: 30230056]

    [239-40]
    - units: add generic boot-complete.target (#1872243)
    - man: document new 'boot-complete.target' unit (#1872243)
    - core: make sure to restore the control command id, too (#1829867)

    [239-39]
    - device: make sure we emit PropertiesChanged signal once we set sysfs (#1793533)
    - device: dont emit PropetiesChanged needlessly (#1793533)

    [239-38]
    - spec: fix rpm verification (#1702300)

    [239-37]
    - spec: dont package /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service (#1844465)

    [239-36]
    - core: dont consider SERVICE_SKIP_CONDITION for abnormal or failure restarts (#1737283)
    - selinux: do preprocessor check only in selinux-access.c (#1830861)
    - basic/cgroup-util: introduce cg_get_keyed_attribute_full() (#1830861)
    - shared: add generic logic for waiting for a unit to enter some state (#1830861)
    - shared: fix assert call (#1830861)
    - shared: Dont try calling NULL callback in bus_wait_for_units_clear (#1830861)
    - shared: add NULL callback check in one more place (#1830861)
    - core: introduce support for cgroup freezer (#1830861)
    - core/cgroup: fix return value of unit_cgorup_freezer_action() (#1830861)
    - core: fix the return value in order to make sure we dont dipatch method return too early (#1830861)
    - test: add test for cgroup v2 freezer support (#1830861)
    - fix mis-merge (#1848421)
    - tests: sleep a bit and give kernel time to perform the action after manual freeze/thaw (#1848421)

    [239-35]
    - spec: fix rpm verification (#1702300)

    [239-34]
    - spec: fix rpm verification (#1702300)

    [239-33]
    - tmpfiles: fix crash with NULL in arg_root and other fixes and tests (#1836024)
    - sulogin-shell: Use force if SYSTEMD_SULOGIN_FORCE set (#1625929)
    - resolvconf: fixes for the compatibility interface (#1835594)
    - mount: dont add Requires for tmp.mount (#1748840)
    - core: coldplug possible nop_job (#1829798)
    - core: add IODeviceLatencyTargetSec (#1831519)
    - time-util: Introduce parse_sec_def_infinity (#1770379)
    - cgroup: use structured initialization (#1770379)
    - core: add CPUQuotaPeriodSec= (#1770379)
    - core: downgrade CPUQuotaPeriodSec= clamping logs to debug (#1770379)
    - sd-bus: avoid magic number in SASL length calculation (#1838081)
    - sd-bus: fix SASL reply to empty AUTH (#1838081)
    - sd-bus: skip sending formatted UIDs via SASL (#1838081)
    - core: add MemoryMin (#1763435)
    - core: introduce cgroup_add_device_allow() (#1763435)
    - test: remove support for suffix in get_testdata_dir() (#1763435)
    - cgroup: Implement default propagation of MemoryLow with DefaultMemoryLow (#1763435)
    - cgroup: Create UNIT_DEFINE_ANCESTOR_MEMORY_LOOKUP (#1763435)
    - unit: Add DefaultMemoryMin (#1763435)
    - cgroup: Polish hierarchically aware protection docs a bit (#1763435)
    - cgroup: Readd some plumbing for DefaultMemoryMin (#1763435)
    - cgroup: Support 0-value for memory protection directives (#1763435)
    - cgroup: Test that its possible to set memory protection to 0 again (#1763435)
    - cgroup: Check ancestor memory min for unified memory config (#1763435)
    - cgroup: Respect DefaultMemoryMin when setting memory.min (#1763435)
    - cgroup: Mark memory protections as explicitly set in transient units (#1763435)
    - meson: allow setting the version string during configuration (#1804252)

    [239-32]
    - pid1: fix DefaultTasksMax initialization (#1809037)
    - cgroup: make sure that cpuset is supported on cgroup v2 and disabled with v1 (#1808940)
    - test: introduce TEST-36-NUMAPOLICY (#1808940)
    - test: replace 'tail -f' with journal cursor which should be... (#1808940)
    - test: support MPOL_LOCAL matching in unpatched strace versions (#1808940)
    - test: make sure the strace process is indeed dead (#1808940)
    - test: skip the test on systems without NUMA support (#1808940)
    - test: give strace some time to initialize (#1808940)
    - test: add a simple sanity check for systems without NUMA support (#1808940)
    - test: drop the missed || exit 1 expression (#1808940)
    - test: replace cursor file with a plain cursor (#1808940)
    - cryptsetup: Treat key file errors as a failed password attempt (#1763155)
    - swap: finish the secondary swap units jobs if deactivation of the primary swap unit fails (#1749622)
    - resolved: Recover missing PrivateTmp=yes and ProtectSystem=strict (#1810869)
    - bus_open leak sd_event_source when udevadm trigger (#1798504)
    - core: rework StopWhenUnneeded= logic (#1798046)
    - pid1: fix the names of AllowedCPUs= and AllowedMemoryNodes= (#1818054)
    - core: fix re-realization of cgroup siblings (#1818054)
    - basic: use comma as separator in cpuset cgroup cpu ranges (#1818054)
    - core: transition to FINAL_SIGTERM state after ExecStopPost= (#1766479)
    - sd-journal: close journal files that were deleted by journald before weve setup inotify watch (#1796128)
    - sd-journal: remove the dead code and actually fix #14695 (#1796128)
    - udev: downgrade message when we fail to set inotify watch up (#1808051)
    - logind: check PolicyKit before allowing VT switch (#1797679)
    - test: do not use global variable to pass error (#1823767)
    - test: install libraries required by tests (#1823767)
    - test: introduce install_zoneinfo() (#1823767)
    - test: replace duplicated Makefile by symbolic link (#1823767)
    - test: add paths of keymaps in install_keymaps() (#1823767)
    - test: make install_keymaps() optionally install more keymaps (#1823767)
    - test-fs-util: skip some tests when running in unprivileged container (#1823767)
    - test-process-util: skip several verifications when running in unprivileged container (#1823767)
    - test-execute: also check python3 is installed or not (#1823767)
    - test-execute: skip several tests when running in container (#1823767)
    - test: introduce test_is_running_from_builddir() (#1823767)
    - test: make test-catalog relocatable (#1823767)
    - test: parallelize tasks in TEST-24-UNIT-TESTS (#1823767)
    - test: try to determine QEMU_SMP dynamically (#1823767)
    - test: store coredumps in journal (#1823767)
    - pid1: add new kernel cmdline arg systemd.cpu_affinity= (#1812894)
    - udev-rules: make tape-changers also apprear in /dev/tape/by-path/ (#1820112)
    - man: be clearer that .timer time expressions need to be reset to override them (#1816908)
    - Add support for opening files for appending (#1809175)
    - nspawn: move payload to sub-cgroup first, then sync cgroup trees (#1837094)
    - core: move unit_status_emit_starting_stopping_reloading() and related calls to job.c (#1737283)
    - job: when a job was skipped due to a failed condition, log about it (#1737283)
    - core: split out all logic that updates a Job on a units unit_notify() invocation (#1737283)
    - core: make log messages about units entering a 'failed' state recognizable (#1737283)
    - core: log a recognizable message when a unit succeeds, too (#1737283)
    - tests: always use the right vtable wrapper calls (#1737283)
    - test-execute: allow filtering test cases by pattern (#1737283)
    - test-execute: provide custom failure message (#1737283)
    - core: ExecCondition= for services (#1737283)
    - Drop support for lz4 < 1.3.0 (#1843871)
    - test-compress: add test for short decompress_startswith calls (#1843871)
    - journal: adapt for new improved LZ4_decompress_safe_partial() (#1843871)
    - fuzz-compress: add fuzzer for compression and decompression (#1843871)
    - seccomp: fix __NR__sysctl usage (#1843871)

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