[Ksplice][Virtuozzo 4.7 Updates] New updates available via Ksplice (CU-2.6.32-042stab078.27)

[Sonja Tideman]

Synopsis: CU-2.6.32-042stab078.27 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2013-2224

Systems running Virtuozzo 4.7 or the OpenVZ RHEL 6 kernel can now use
Ksplice to patch against the latest Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.7
kernel security update, CU-2.6.32-042stab078.27.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack on Virtuozzo 4.7 or
OpenVZ on RHEL 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-2013-2224: Denial of service in sendmsg().

An invalid free used while sending a message with the sendmsg(2) call with
IP_RETOPTS set could lead to a kernel crash.  This could be exploited by a
malicious user to cause a denial of service or possibly allow arbitrary code
execution.

SUPPORT

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