[Ksplice][EL6-Updates] New Ksplice updates for OL 6, RHEL 6, CentOS 6, and Scientific Linux 6 (ELSA-2019-3878)
Oracle Ksplice
ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com
Wed Dec 18 09:11:31 PST 2019
Synopsis: ELSA-2019-3878 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2019-0155
Systems running RHCK on Oracle Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6,
CentOS 6, and Scientific Linux 6 can now use Ksplice to patch against
the latest Red Hat kernel update, ELSA-2019-3878.
More information about this errata can be found at
https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2019-3878.html
INSTALLING THE UPDATES
We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack running OL 6, 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
* Improved fix for CVE-2019-0155: Privilege escalation in Intel i915 graphics driver.
Missing zeroing of data used to disallow rogue i915 instructions could
make i915 driver vulnerable to CVE-2019-0155 on 64 bits systems.
SUPPORT
Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com.
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