[El-errata] ELSA-2011-1479 Important: Oracle Linux 5 kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Wed Nov 30 09:15:05 PST 2011

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2011-1479

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1479.html

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

i386:
kernel-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.i386.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
kernel-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol5/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.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-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5PAE-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5-1.4.9-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5PAE-1.4.9-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.9-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.9-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5-1.4.9-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5PAE-1.4.9-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.9-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.9-1.el5.i686.rpm

x86_64:
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5-1.4.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5-1.4.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5-1.4.9-1.el5.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.9-1.el5.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.9-1.el5.ia64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5-1.4.9-1.el5.src.rpm

Description of changes:

[2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5]
- fix ia64 build error due to add-support-above-32-vcpus.patch(Zhenzhong 
Duan)
- [x86] use dynamic vcpu_info remap to support more than 32 vcpus 
(Zhenzhong Duan)
- [scsi] add additional scsi medium error handling (John Sobecki) 
[orabug 12904887]
- [x86] Fix lvt0 reset when hvm boot up with noapic param
- [scsi] remove printk's when doing I/O to a dead device (John Sobecki, 
Chris Mason)
   [orabug 12342275]
- [char] ipmi: Fix IPMI errors due to timing problems (Joe Jin) [orabug 
12561346]
- [scsi] Fix race when removing SCSI devices (Joe Jin) [orabug 12404566]
- bonding: reread information about speed and duplex when interface goes 
up (John Haxby) [orabug 11890822]
- [fs] nfs: Fix __put_nfs_open_context() NULL pointer panic (Joe Jin) 
[orabug 12687646]
- [scsi] fix scsi hotplug and rescan race [orabug 10260172]
- fix filp_close() race (Joe Jin) [orabug 10335998]
- 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()
- [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)

[2.6.18-274.12.1.el5]
- Revert: [virt] kvm: fix lost tick accounting for 32 bit kvm-clock (Rik 
van Riel) [747875 731599]

[2.6.18-274.11.1.el5]
- [fs] gfs2: speed up large file delete/unlink (Robert S Peterson) 
[743806 738440]
- [fs] cifs: fix wrong buffer length returned by SendReceive (Sachin 
Prabhu) [750842 720363]
- [virt] kvm: fix lost tick accounting for 32 bit kvm-clock (Rik van 
Riel) [747875 731599]
- [virt] xen/netback: disable features not supported by netfront (Paolo 
Bonzini) [746600 746225]
- [fs] nfs: don't redirty inodes with no outstanding commits (Jeff 
Layton) [750477 739665]
- [net] tg3: call netif_carrier_off to initialize operstate value (John 
Feeney) [744700 635982]
- [xen] make test_assign_device domctl dependent on intremap hw (Laszlo 
Ersek) [745726 740203]
- [xen] Propagate target dom within XEN_DOMCTL_test_assign_device 
(Laszlo Ersek) [745726 740203]
- [net] sctp: encode PROTOCOL VIOLATION error cause correctly (Thomas 
Graf) [750457 636828]
- [fs] cifs: always do is_path_accessible check in cifs_mount (Jeff 
Layton) [738299 738300] {CVE-2011-3363}
- [fs] cifs: add fallback in is_path_accessible for old servers (Jeff 
Layton) [738299 738300] {CVE-2011-3363}
- [char] tpm: Zero buffer after copying to userspace (Jiri Benc) [732630 
732631] {CVE-2011-1162}
- [fs] hfs: fix hfs_find_init() sb->ext_tree NULL ptr oops (Phillip 
Lougher) [712775 712776] {CVE-2011-2203}
- [net] sctp: Set correct error cause value for missing parameters 
(Thomas Graf) [750451 629938]
- [misc] kernel: plug taskstats io infoleak (Jerome Marchand) [716845 
716846] {CVE-2011-2494}
- [usb] Make device reset stop retrying after disconnect (Don Zickus) 
[750841 709699]
- [net] ipv6: properly use ICMP6MSGOUT_INC_STATS in ndisc_send_skb (Jiri 
Pirko) [743611 698728]
- [scsi] Reduce error recovery time by reducing use of TURs (Mike 
Christie) [741273 694625]
- [mm] s390: fix first time swap use results in heavy swapping (Hendrik 
Brueckner) [747876 722482]
- [virt] xen: fix GFP mask handling in dma_alloc_coherent (Laszlo Ersek) 
[742282 730247]
- [s390] kernel: fix system hang if hangcheck timer expires (Hendrik 
Brueckner) [747872 730313]
- [usb] fix interface sysfs file-creation bug (Don Zickus) [750848 637930]
- [usb] don't touch sysfs stuff when altsetting is unchanged (Don 
Zickus) [750848 637930]
- [base] Fix potential deadlock in driver core (Don Zickus) [750848 637930]
- [security] keys: Fix NULL deref in user-defined key type (David 
Howells) [751300 751301]
- [xen] passthrough: block VT-d MSI trap injection (Paolo Bonzini) 
[716301 716302] {CVE-2011-1898}

[2.6.18-274.10.1.el5]
- [net] be2net: enable NETIF_F_LLTX and add own locking of Tx path (Ivan 
Vecera) [750912 731806]
- [net] be2net: fix multicast filter programming (Ivan Vecera) [750912 
731806]
- [net] be2net: fix cmd-rx-filter not notifying MCC (Ivan Vecera) 
[750912 731806]
- [net] be2net: use RX_FILTER cmd to program multicast addresses (Ivan 
Vecera) [750912 731806]

[2.6.18-274.9.1.el5]
- [fs] nfs: re-add call to filemap_fdatawrite (David Jeffery) [750508 
748999]

[2.6.18-274.8.1.el5]
- [fs] nfs: Don't call iput holding nfs_access_cache_shrinker lock 
(Steve Dickson) [749459 585935]