[Ksplice][Fedora-16-updates] New updates available via Ksplice (FEDORA-2012-8074)

[Christine Spang]

Synopsis: FEDORA-2012-8074 can now be patched using Ksplice

Systems running Fedora 16 can now use Ksplice to patch against the
latest Fedora kernel update, FEDORA-2012-8074.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack on Fedora 16 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

* Denial of service in the Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol TX routine.

A specially crafted send request over the L2TP protocol could lead to
the TX function failing without releasing the socket mutex.


* Memory corruption in KVM device assignment slot handling.

A race condition in the KVM device assignment slot handling caused by
missing locks around the unmapping of memory slots could cause a memory
corruption.

SUPPORT

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