[El-errata] ELSA-2011-2010 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security fix update

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Fri Mar 18 08:12:45 PDT 2011


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2011-2010

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:


x86_64:
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.32-100.28.9.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.32-100.28.9.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-2.6.32-100.28.9.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-headers-2.6.32-100.28.9.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.32-100.28.9.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.32-100.28.9.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.32-100.28.9.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-2.6.32-100.28.9.el6.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[2.6.32-100.28.9.el6]
- sync up the version

[2.6.32-100.28.8.el6]
- [block] check for proper length of iov entries earlier in 
blk_rq_map_user_iov
  (Xiaotian Feng) {CVE-2010-4668}
- scm: lower SCM_MAX_FD (Eric Dumazet) {CVE-2010-4249}
- perf_events: Fix perf_counter_mmap() hook in mprotect() (Pekka Enberg)
  {CVE-2010-4169}
- tcp: Increase TCP_MAXSEG socket option minimum (David S. Miller)
  {CVE-2010-4165}
- Enable module force load option [orabug 11782146]
- Enable vmw balloon and pvscsi (Guru Anbalagane) [orabug 11697522]

[2.6.32-100.28.7.el6]
- build from git

[2.6.32-100.28.6.el6]
- Remove crashkernel option if it is present [bug 11714928]





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