[Ksplice][Fedora-16-updates] New updates available via Ksplice (FEDORA-2012-3350)

[Sasha Levin]

Synopsis: FEDORA-2012-3350 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2012-1097

Systems running Fedora 16 can now use Ksplice to patch against the
latest Fedora security update, FEDORA-2012-3350.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack on Fedora 16 install
these updates.  You can install these updates by running:

# /usr/sbin/uptrack-upgrade -y

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 additional action.


DESCRIPTION

* CVE-2012-1097: NULL pointer dereference in the ptrace subsystem.

Under certain circumstances, ptrace-ing a process could lead to a NULL
pointer dereference and kernel panic.


* Denial of service in transparent hugepage memory subsystem.

It is possible to trigger a BUG() when exiting a process or freeing a large
block of memory which was mapped using transparent hugepages.

SUPPORT

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