[Ksplice-cloudlinux6-updates] New updates available via Ksplice (CVE-2014-9322)

[Jamie Iles]

Synopsis: CVE-2014-9322 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2014-9090 CVE-2014-9322

Systems running CloudLinux 6 can now use Ksplice to patch against
CVE-2014-9322.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack on CloudLinux 6 install
these updates.

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 action.

Alternatively, you can install these updates by running:

# /usr/sbin/uptrack-upgrade -y


DESCRIPTION

* CVE-2014-9090, CVE-2014-9322: Denial-of-service in double-fault handling on bad stack segment.

A flaw when handling double faults associated with the stack segment
register could lead to a kernel panic.  A local, unprivileged user could
use this flaw via the modify_ldt() system call to cause a
denial-of-service.

SUPPORT

Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com.