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Oracle alert ELSA-2012-0107 (kernel)

From:  Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux <el-errata@oracle.com>
To:  el-errata@oss.oracle.com
Subject:  [El-errata] ELSA-2012-0107 Important: Oracle Linux 5 kernel security and bug fix update
Date:  Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:52:45 -0800
Message-ID:  <4F35ADCD.6020201@oracle.com>
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Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2012-0107 <https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0107.html>https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0107.html The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 5 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network: i386: kernel-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.i386.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm x86_64: kernel-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm ia64: kernel-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm SRPMS: http://oss.oracle.com/ol5/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.18-274... The following packages were rebuilt to be in sync with the updated kernel version (no changes other than updating the version number): i386: oracleasm-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5PAE-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5-1.4.9-1.el5.i686.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5PAE-1.4.9-1.el5.i686.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.9-1.el5.i686.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.9-1.el5.i686.rpm x86_64: oracleasm-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5-1.4.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm ia64: oracleasm-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5-1.4.9-1.el5.ia64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.9-1.el5.ia64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.9-1.el5.ia64.rpm SRPMS: http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.18-... http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.18-274.... Description of changes: [2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5] - [net] bonding: fix carrier detect when bond is down (John Haxby) [orabug 13652598] - fix ia64 build error due to add-support-above-32-vcpus.patch(Zhenzhong Duan) - [x86] use dynamic vcpu_info remap to support more than 32 vcpus (Zhenzhong Duan) - [scsi] add additional scsi medium error handling (John Sobecki) [orabug 12904887] - [x86] Fix lvt0 reset when hvm boot up with noapic param - [scsi] remove printk's when doing I/O to a dead device (John Sobecki, Chris Mason) [orabug 12342275] - [char] ipmi: Fix IPMI errors due to timing problems (Joe Jin) [orabug 12561346] - [scsi] Fix race when removing SCSI devices (Joe Jin) [orabug 12404566] - [fs] nfs: Fix __put_nfs_open_context() NULL pointer panic (Joe Jin) [orabug 12687646] - [scsi] fix scsi hotplug and rescan race [orabug 10260172] - fix filp_close() race (Joe Jin) [orabug 10335998] - make xenkbd.abs_pointer=1 by default [orabug 67188919] - [xen] check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change (Chuck Anderson) [orabug 7556514] - [net] Enable entropy for bnx2,bnx2x,e1000e,igb,ixgb,ixgbe,ixgbevf (John Sobecki) [orabug 10315433] - [NET] Add xen pv netconsole support (Tina Yang) [orabug 6993043] [bz 7258] - [mm] shrink_zone patch (John Sobecki,Chris Mason) [orabug 6086839] - fix aacraid not to reset during kexec (Joe Jin) [orabug 8516042] - [rds] Patch rds to 1.4.2-20 (Andy Grover) [orabug 9471572, 9344105] RDS: Fix BUG_ONs to not fire when in a tasklet ipoib: Fix lockup of the tx queue RDS: Do not call set_page_dirty() with irqs off (Sherman Pun) RDS: Properly unmap when getting a remote access error (Tina Yang) RDS: Fix locking in rds_send_drop_to() - [xen] PVHVM guest with PoD crashes under memory pressure (Chuck Anderson) [orabug 9107465] - [xen] PV guest with FC HBA hangs during shutdown (Chuck Anderson) [orabug 9764220] - Support 256GB+ memory for pv guest (Mukesh Rathor) [orabug 9450615] - fix overcommit memory to use percpu_counter for el5 (KOSAKI Motohiro, Guru Anbalagane) [orabug 6124033] - [ipmi] make configurable timeouts for kcs of ipmi [orabug 9752208] - [ib] fix memory corruption (Andy Grover) [orabug 9972346] - [aio] patch removes limit on number of retries (Srinivas Eeda) [orabug 10044782] - [loop] Do not call loop_unplug for not configured loop device (orabug 10314497) [2.6.18-274.18.1.el5] - [misc] Move exit_robust_list to mm_release, null lists on cleanup (Laszlo Ersek) [771774 750283] {CVE-2012-0028} - [block] disable SG_IO ioctls on virtio-blk devices (Paolo Bonzini) [773322 771592] - [scsi] fix 32-on-64 block device ioctls (Paolo Bonzini) [752385 752386] {CVE-2011-4127} - [dm] do not forward ioctls from logical volumes to the underlying device (Paolo Bonzini) [752385 752386] {CVE-2011-4127} - [block] fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices (Paolo Bonzini) [752385 752386] {CVE-2011-4127} - [block] add and use scsi_blk_cmd_ioctl (Paolo Bonzini) [752385 752386] {CVE-2011-4127} - [fs] ext4: fix BUG_ON() in ext4_ext_insert_extent() (Lukas Czerner) [747943 747946] {CVE-2011-3638} - [scsi] don't fail scans when host is in recovery (Rob Evers) [772162 657345] - [fs] jbd2: clear BH_Delay & BH_Unwritten in journal_unmap_buffer (Eric Sandeen) [783477 783284] {CVE-2011-4086} - [net] igmp: Avoid zero delay when receiving odd mixture of IGMP queries (Jiri Pirko) [772868 772869] {CVE-2012-0207} _______________________________________________ El-errata mailing list El-errata@oss.oracle.com http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/el-errata


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