[Ksplice][Fedora-18-updates] New updates available via Ksplice (FEDORA-2013-2427)

[Samson Yeung]

Synopsis: FEDORA-2013-2427 can now be patched using Ksplice

Systems running Fedora 18 can now use Ksplice to patch against the
latest Fedora kernel update, FEDORA-2013-2427.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack on Fedora 18 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

* Memory leak in RSA digital signature verification.

An internal buffer was not freed at the end of the verification process.


* Memory leak in xHCI USB host request handler.

The private date related to TX events in the USB request handler was
not freed.


* Memory leak in EHCI isochronous data.

An incorrect scan over the data frames resulted in a memory leak.


* Kernel panic in TCP fast open on uniprocessor machines.

An invalid locking test for uniprocessor machines results in a system panic.


* Off-by-one error in qlogic netxen NIC driver.

An off by one bug in the qlogic netxen driver would trigger a kernel panic
on full size TSO packets.


* Use-after-free in IP loopback transmission handling.

The loopback driver didn't correctly handle a specific type of data, which
would allow a packet to be freed before being processed.


* Kernel panic on GRE checksum calculation.

Checksum wasn't correctly calculated when GRE GSO support was enabled,
leading to a kernel panic.


* Memory leak in raw packet protocol ring.

Extra packets were allocated and lost during initialization.

SUPPORT

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