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Oracle alert ELSA-2012-1174 (kernel)

From:  Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux <el-errata@oss.oracle.com>
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Subject:  [El-errata] ELSA-2012-1174 Low: Oracle Linux 5 kernel security and bug fix update
Date:  Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:06:20 -0700
Message-ID:  <503719DC.6040506@oracle.com>
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Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2012-1174 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1174.html The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 5 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network: i386: kernel-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.i386.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.i686.rpm x86_64: kernel-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.x86_64.rpm ia64: kernel-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-308.13.1.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-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5PAE-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5PAE-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5xen-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5debug-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm x86_64: oracleasm-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5xen-1.4.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5debug-1.4.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm ia64: oracleasm-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.ia64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5xen-1.4.10-1.el5.ia64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.13.1.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: * FPU corruption in page fault handling. An error in the FPU state management when handling page faults could result in corruption of the XMM registers for the user application. [2.6.18-308.13.1.el5] - [net] e1000e: Cleanup logic in e1000_check_for_serdes_link_82571 (Dean Nelson) [841370 771366] - [net] e1000e: Correct link check logic for 82571 serdes (Dean Nelson) [841370 771366] - [mm] NULL pointer dereference in __vm_enough_memory (Jerome Marchand) [840077 836244] - [fs] dlm: fix slow rsb search in dir recovery (David Teigland) [838140 753244] - [fs] autofs: propogate LOOKUP_DIRECTORY flag only for last comp (Ian Kent) [830264 814418] - [fs] ext4: properly dirty split extent nodes (Eric Sandeen) [840946 839770] - [scsi] don't offline devices with a reservation conflict (David Jeffery) [839196 835660] - [fs] ext4: Fix overflow caused by missing cast in ext4_fallocate (Lukas Czerner) [837226 830351] - [net] dl2k: Clean up rio_ioctl (Weiping Pan) [818822 818823] {CVE-2012-2313} - [x86] sched: Avoid unnecessary overflow in sched_clock (Prarit Bhargava) [835450 834562] - [net] tg3: Fix TSO handling (John Feeney) [833182 795672] - [input] evdev: use after free from open/disconnect race (David Jeffery) [832448 822166] [2.6.18-308.12.1.el5] - [fs] nfs: Don't allow multiple mounts on same mntpnt with -o noac (Sachin Prabhu) [839806 839753] _______________________________________________ El-errata mailing list El-errata@oss.oracle.com https://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/el-errata


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