[El-errata] ELSA-2012-0107 Important: Oracle Linux 5 kernel security and bug fix update

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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-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5.src.rpm

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-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5-1.4.9-1.el5.src.rpm

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}

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