[El-errata] ELSA-2016-3503 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

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Sat Jan 9 08:38:13 PST 2016


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2016-3503

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-3503.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
kernel-uek-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek.noarch.rpm
ofa-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek-1.5.1-4.0.58.i686.rpm
ofa-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uekdebug-1.5.1-4.0.58.i686.rpm
mlnx_en-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek-1.5.7-0.1.i686.rpm
mlnx_en-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uekdebug-1.5.7-0.1.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
ofa-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek-1.5.1-4.0.58.x86_64.rpm
ofa-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uekdebug-1.5.1-4.0.58.x86_64.rpm
mlnx_en-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek-1.5.7-0.1.x86_64.rpm
mlnx_en-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uekdebug-1.5.7-0.1.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/ofa-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek-1.5.1-4.0.58.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/mlnx_en-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek-1.5.7-0.1.src.rpm



Description of changes:

kernel-uek
[2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek]
- ipc/sem.c: fully initialize sem_array before making it visible 
(Manfred Spraul)  [Orabug: 22250043]  {CVE-2015-7613}
- Initialize msg/shm IPC objects before doing ipc_addid() (Linus 
Torvalds)  [Orabug: 22250043]  {CVE-2015-7613}
- crypto: add missing crypto module aliases (Mathias Krause)  [Orabug: 
22249655]  {CVE-2013-7421} {CVE-2014-9644}
- crypto: include crypto- module prefix in template (Kees Cook) 
[Orabug: 22249655]  {CVE-2013-7421} {CVE-2014-9644}
- crypto: prefix module autoloading with "crypto-" (Kees Cook)  [Orabug: 
22249655]  {CVE-2013-7421} {CVE-2014-9644}

[2.6.32-400.37.14.el6uek]
- KVM: add arg to ac_interception() missing from "KVM: x86: work around 
infinite loop in microcode when #AC is delivered" (Chuck Anderson) 
[Orabug: 22336493]  {CVE-2015-5307}

[2.6.32-400.37.13.el6uek]
- KVM: svm: unconditionally intercept #DB (Paolo Bonzini)  [Orabug: 
22336518]  {CVE-2015-8104} {CVE-2015-8104}
- KVM: x86: work around infinite loop in microcode when #AC is delivered 
(Eric Northup)  [Orabug: 22336493]  {CVE-2015-5307} {CVE-2015-5307}





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