[Ksplice][EL6-Updates] New updates available via Ksplice (RHSA-2012:0862-4)

[Samson Yeung]

Synopsis: RHSA-2012:0862-4 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2011-4131

Systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, CentOS 6, and Scientific
Linux 6 can now use Ksplice to patch against the latest Red Hat
Security Advisory, RHSA-2012:0862-4.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack on RHEL 6, CentOS 6,
and Scientific Linux 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-2011-4131: Kernel crash in NFSv4.

nfs4_getfacl decoding causes a kernel crash when a server returns more
than 2 GETATTR bitmap words in response to the FATTR4_ACL attribute
request.

SUPPORT

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