[Ksplice][EL6-Updates] New Ksplice updates for OL 6, RHEL 6, CentOS 6, and Scientific Linux 6 (ELSA-2020-5934)

[Oracle Ksplice]

Synopsis: ELSA-2020-5934 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2014-4508

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-2020-5934.
More information about this errata can be found at
https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-5934.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

* CVE-2014-4508: Denial-of-service in syscall audit code when using wrong syscall number.

A flaw in the error path of the entry point of a syscall leads to a kernel
panic if syscall auditing is enabled and the syscall number is larger than
the number of syscalls. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to
cause a denial-of-service.

SUPPORT

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