[El-errata] ELSA-2011-0163 Important: Oracle Linux 5 kernel security and bug fix update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2011-0163

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0163.html

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

i386:
kernel-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5.i386.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.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-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5PAE-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5-1.4.8-2.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5PAE-1.4.8-2.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.8-2.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.8-2.el5.i686.rpm

x86_64:
oracleasm-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5-1.4.8-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.8-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.8-2.el5.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5-1.4.8-2.el5.src.rpm

Description of changes:

[2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5]
- fix filp_close() race (Joe Jin) [orabug 10335998]
- fix missing aio_complete() in end_io (Joel Becker) [orabug 10365195]
- make xenkbd.abs_pointer=1 by default [orabug 67188919]
- [xen] check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change
  (Chuck Anderson) [orabug 7556514]
- [net] Enable entropy for bnx2,bnx2x,e1000e,igb,ixgb,ixgbe,ixgbevf 
(John Sobecki)
  [orabug 10315433]
- [NET] Add xen pv netconsole support (Tina Yang) [orabug 6993043] [bz 7258]
- [mm] shrink_zone patch (John Sobecki,Chris Mason) [orabug 6086839]
- fix aacraid not to reset during kexec (Joe Jin) [orabug 8516042]
- [rds] Patch rds to 1.4.2-20 (Andy Grover) [orabug 9471572, 9344105]
  RDS: Fix BUG_ONs to not fire when in a tasklet
  ipoib: Fix lockup of the tx queue
  RDS: Do not call set_page_dirty() with irqs off (Sherman Pun)
  RDS: Properly unmap when getting a remote access error (Tina Yang)
  RDS: Fix locking in rds_send_drop_to()
- [qla] fix qla not to query hccr (Guru Anbalagane) [Orabug 8746702]
- [nfs] too many getattr and access calls after direct I/O [orabug 9348191]
- [xen] PVHVM guest with PoD crashes under memory pressure (Chuck Anderson)
  [orabug 9107465]
- [xen] PV guest with FC HBA hangs during shutdown (Chuck Anderson)
  [orabug 9764220]
- Support 256GB+ memory  for pv guest (Mukesh Rathor) [orabug 9450615]
- fix overcommit memory to use percpu_counter for el5 (KOSAKI Motohiro,
  Guru Anbalagane) [orabug 6124033]
- [ipmi] make  configurable timeouts for kcs of ipmi [orabug 9752208]
- [ib] fix memory corruption (Andy Grover) [orabug 9972346]
- [aio] patch removes limit on number of retries (Srinivas Eeda) [orabug 
10044782]
- [loop] Do not call loop_unplug for not configured loop device (orabug 
10314497)

[2.6.18-238.1.1.el5]
- [scsi] megaraid: give FW more time to recover from reset (Tomas Henzl) 
[667141 665427]
- [fs] gfs2: fix statfs error after gfs2_grow (Robert S Peterson) 
[666792 660661]
- [mm] prevent file lock corruption using popen(3) (Larry Woodman) 
[667050 664931]
- [net] sctp: fix panic from bad socket lock on icmp error (Neil Horman) 
[665476 665477] {CVE-2010-4526}