[El-errata] ELSA-2011-2016 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security fix update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2011-2016

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


x86_64:
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.32-100.28.17.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.32-100.28.17.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-2.6.32-100.28.17.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-headers-2.6.32-100.28.17.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.32-100.28.17.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.32-100.28.17.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.32-100.28.17.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-2.6.32-100.28.17.el6.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[2.6.32-100.28.17.el6]
- [net] Extend prot->slab size when add sock extend fields.

[2.6.32-100.28.16.el6]
- kernel: Fix unlimited socket backlog DoS {CVE-2010-4251}
- RDS: Fix congestion issues for loopback
- rds: prevent BUG_ON triggering on congestion map updates {CVE-2011-1023}
- epoll: prevent creating circular epoll structures {CVE-2011-1082}
- fs: fix corrupted OSF partition table parsing {CVE-2011-1163}
- fs: Increase OSF partition limit from 8 to 18 {CVE-2011-1163}
- netfilter: arp_tables: fix infoleak to userspace {CVE-2011-1170}
- netfilter: ip_tables: fix infoleak to userspace {CVE-2011-1171}
- ipv6: netfilter: ip6_tables: fix infoleak to userspace {CVE-2011-1172}
- [SCSI] mpt2sas: prevent heap overflows and unchecked reads 
{CVE-2011-1494, CVE-2011-1495}
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