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Oracle alert ELSA-2012-0721 (kernel)

From:  Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux <el-errata@oss.oracle.com>
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Subject:  [El-errata] ELSA-2012-0721 Important: Oracle Linux 5 kernel security update
Date:  Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:06:55 -0700
Message-ID:  <4FDBDC2F.6000406@oracle.com>
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Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2012-0721 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0721.html The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 5 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network: i386: kernel-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.i686.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.i386.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.i686.rpm x86_64: kernel-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.x86_64.rpm ia64: kernel-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.ia64.rpm SRPMS: http://oss.oracle.com/ol5/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.18-308... The following packages were rebuilt to be in sync with the updated kernel version (no changes other than updating the version number): i386: oracleasm-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5PAE-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5PAE-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5xen-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5debug-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm x86_64: oracleasm-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5xen-1.4.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5debug-1.4.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm ia64: oracleasm-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.ia64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5xen-1.4.10-1.el5.ia64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5debug-1.4.10-1.el5.ia64.rpm SRPMS: http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.18-... http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.18-308.... Users with Oracle Linux Premier Support can now use Ksplice to patch against this Security Advisory. We recommend that all users of Oracle Linux 5 install these updates. Users of Ksplice Uptrack can install these updates by running : # /usr/sbin/uptrack-upgrade -y On systems that have "autoinstall = yes" in /etc/uptrack/uptrack.conf, these updates will be installed automatically and you do not need to take any additional action. Description of changes: This Security Advisory, does not make any changes to the Linux kernel. This errata update only updates the Xen Hypervisor, which is not part of the Linux kernel. Customers running Xen hosts will need to reboot to get the latest hypervisor updates. kernel: [2.6.18-308.8.2.el5] - [xen] x86_64: check address on trap handlers or guest callbacks (Paolo Bonzini) [813430 813431] {CVE-2012-0217} - [xen] x86_64: Do not execute sysret with a non-canonical return address (Paolo Bonzini) [813430 813431] {CVE-2012-0217} - [xen] x86: prevent hv boot on AMD CPUs with Erratum 121 (Laszlo Ersek) [824969 824970] ocfs2: [1.4.10] - ocfs2/dlm: Cleanup mlogs in dlmthread.c dlmast.c and dlmdomain.c - ocfs2/dlm: make existing convertion precedent over new lock - ocfs2/dlm: Cleanup dlmdebug.c - ocfs2/dlm: Minor cleanup - ocfs2/dlm: Hard code the values for enums - ocfs2: Wakeup down convert thread just after clearing OCFS2 LOCK UPCONVERT FINISHING - ocfs2/dlm: Take inflight reference count for remotely mastered resources too - ocfs2/dlm: dlmlock remote needs to account for remastery - ocfs2: Add some trace log for orphan scan - ocfs2: Remove unused old id in ocfs2_commit_cache - ocfs2: Remove obsolete comments before ocfs2_start_trans - ocfs2: Initialize the bktcnt variable properly and call it bucket_count - ocfs2: Use cpu to le16 for e leaf clusters in ocfs2_bg_discontig_add_extent - ocfs2: validate bg free bits count after update - ocfs2: cluster Pin the remote node item in configfs - ocfs2: Release buffer head in case of error in ocfs2_double_lock - ocfs2: optimize ocfs2 check dir entry with unlikely() annotations - ocfs2: Little refactoring against ocfs2 iget - ocfs2: Initialize data ac might be used uninitializ - ocfs2 Skip mount recovery for hard ro mounts - ocfs2: make direntry invalid when deleting it - ocfs2: commit trans in error - ocfs2: Fix deadlock when allocating page - ocfs2: Avoid livelock in ocfs2 readpage _______________________________________________ El-errata mailing list El-errata@oss.oracle.com http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/el-errata


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