[El-errata] ELSA-2008-0129 Important: Enterprise Linux 5 kernel security update

[el-errata at oss.oracle.com]

Enterprise Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2008-0129

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0129.html

The following updated rpms for Enterprise Linux 5 have been uploaded to 
the Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5.i386.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5.src.rpm


The following packages were rebuilt to be in sync with the updated 
kernel version (no changes other than updating the version number):

i386:
oracleasm-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5-2.0.4-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5PAE-2.0.4-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5xen-2.0.4-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5debug-2.0.4-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5-1.2.8-2.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5PAE-1.2.8-2.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5xen-1.2.8-2.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5debug-1.2.8-2.el5.i686.rpm

x86_64:
oracleasm-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5-2.0.4-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5xen-2.0.4-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5debug-2.0.4-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5-1.2.8-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5xen-1.2.8-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5debug-1.2.8-2.el5.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5-2.0.4-1.el5.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5-1.2.8-2.el5.src.rpm

Description of changes:

[2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5]

- [NET] Add entropy support to e1000 and bnx2 (John Sobecki) [orabug 
6045759]
- [NET] Fix msi issue with kexec/kdump (Michael Chan) [orabug 6219364]
- [MM] Fix alloc_pages_node() static `nid' race made kernel crash (Joe 
Jin) [orabug 6187457]
- [splice] Fix bad unlock_page() in error case  (Jens Axboe) [orabug 
6263574]
- [dio] fix error-path crashes (Linus Torvalds) [orabug 6242289]
- [MM] Fix leak in hugepages, regression for shared pagetables patch 
(Adam Litke) [orabug 6732368]

[2.6.18-53.1.13]
- revert to 2.6.18-53.1.6.el5
- [x86_64] kernel vmsplice_to_pipe flaw (Alexander Viro ) [432252] 
{CVE-2008-0600}