[Ksplice][Virtuozzo 4.7 Updates] New updates available via Ksplice (CU-2.6.32-042stab078.26)

[Samson Yeung]

Synopsis: CU-2.6.32-042stab078.26 can now be patched using Ksplice

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-2.6.32-042stab078.26.

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

* Kernel crash in nested process ID namespaces.

Incorrect mounting of the proc filesystem in nested process ID
namespaces could result in a kernel crash.


* Corruption in ext4 filesystems using direct I/O.

Incorrect handling of data sync on an ext4 filesystem could result in
corruption when using direct I/O.


* Kernel crash in ext4 subsystem on ploop resize.

Incorrect handling of low resource counts could result in a kernel crash
when resizing a ploop device.

SUPPORT

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