[Ksplice][Virtuozzo 4.7 Updates] New updates available via Ksplice (2.6.32-042stab094.8)
Oracle Ksplice
ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com
Fri Dec 19 00:06:51 PST 2014
Synopsis: 2.6.32-042stab094.8 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2014-9090 CVE-2014-9322
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, 2.6.32-042stab094.8.
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-2014-9090, CVE-2014-9322: Denial-of-service in double-fault handling on bad stack segment.
A flaw when handling double faults associated with the stack segment
register could lead to a kernel panic. A local, unprivileged user could
use this flaw via the modify_ldt() system call to cause a
denial-of-service.
SUPPORT
Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com.
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