[El-errata] ELSA-2011-1386 Important: Oracle Linux 5 kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Mon Oct 24 15:29:38 PDT 2011


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2011-1386

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1386.html

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

i386:
kernel-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.i386.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
kernel-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol5/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.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-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5PAE-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5-1.4.9-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5PAE-1.4.9-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.9-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.9-1.el5.i686.rpm

x86_64:
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5-1.4.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5-1.4.9-1.el5.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.9-1.el5.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.9-1.el5.ia64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5-1.4.9-1.el5.src.rpm

Description of changes:

kernel:

[2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.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)

[2.6.18-274.7.1.el5]
- Revert: [xen] passthrough: block VT-d MSI trap injection (Paolo 
Bonzini) [716301 716302] {CVE-2011-1898}

[2.6.18-274.6.1.el5]
- [net] bridge: fix use after free in __br_deliver (Amerigo Wang) 
[730949 703045] {CVE-2011-2942}
- [misc] remove div_long_long_rem (Prarit Bhargava) [732879 732614] 
{CVE-2011-3209}
- [net] be2net: fix crash receiving non-member VLAN packets (Ivan 
Vecera) [736430 730239] {CVE-2011-3347}
- [net] be2net: Use NTWK_RX_FILTER command for promiscous mode (Ivan 
Vecera) [736430 730239] {CVE-2011-3347}
- [net] be2net: non-member vlan pkts not received in promisc mode (Ivan 
Vecera) [736430 730239] {CVE-2011-3347}
- [net] be2net: remove bogus unlikely on vlan check (Ivan Vecera) 
[736430 730239] {CVE-2011-3347}
- [x86] nmi: make NMI_NONE default watchdog in x86_64 hvm guests (Laszlo 
Ersek) [739823 707966]

[2.6.18-274.5.1.el5]
- [fs] proc: fix compile warning in pdeaux addition (Jarod Wilson) 
[732775 675781]
- [fs] proc: Fix procfs race vs rmmod or hot-remove (David Howells) 
[732775 675781]
- [net] Compute protocol seq numbers and fragment IDs using MD5 (Jiri 
Pirko) [732662 732663] {CVE-2011-3188}
- [crypto] Move md5_transform to lib/md5.c (Jiri Pirko) [732662 732663] 
{CVE-2011-3188}
- [fs] nfs: Fix client not honoring nosharecache mount option (David 
Jeffery) [734772 730097]
- [mm] avoid wrapping vm_pgoff in mremap and stack expansion (Jerome 
Marchand) [716543 716544] {CVE-2011-2496}
- [mm] Fix incorrect off-by-one centisec dirty values (Larry Woodman) 
[733665 691087]
- [net] bnx2x: fix bringup of BCM57710 (Michal Schmidt) [737475 680411]
- [virt] xen/netfront: no disable s/g when renegotiating features (Paolo 
Bonzini) [738392 733416]
- [fs] aio: fix aio+dio completion path regression w/3rd-party bits 
(Jeff Moyer) [734157 727504]
- [virt] xen: Allow arbitrary mtu size until frontend connected (Paolo 
Bonzini) [738389 697021]
- [misc] hypervisor: fix race in interrupt hook code (Prarit Bhargava) 
[730689 692966]
- [net] cnic, bnx2: Check iSCSI support early in bnx2_init_one (Neil 
Horman) [734761 710272]
- [net] igb: fix WOL on 2nd port on i350 (Stefan Assmann) [730682 718988]
- [misc] irq: fix interrupt handling for kdump under high load (Stefan 
Assmann) [728521 720212]

[2.6.18-274.4.1.el5]
- [serial] ifdef for powerpc, to only add functionality to this arch 
(Steve Best) [732377 707051]
- [serial] 8250: Fix capabilities when changing the port type (Steve 
Best) [732377 707051]
- [serial] 8250_pci EEH support for IBM/Digi PCIe 2-port Adapter (Steve 
Best) [732377 707051]
- [serial] 8250_pci: Add support for Digi/IBM PCIe 2-port Adapter (Steve 
Best) [732377 707051]
- [fs] ecryptfs: Add mount option to check uid of mounting device (Eric 
Sandeen) [731173 731174] {CVE-2011-1833}
- [scsi] qla2xxx: Re-add checks for null fcport references (Chad Dupuis) 
[736275 728219]
- [net] ipv6: make fragment identifications less predictable (Jiri 
Pirko) [723430 723431] {CVE-2011-2699}
- [net] ipv6: Remove unused skb argument of ipv6_select_ident (Jiri 
Pirko) [723430 723431] {CVE-2011-2699}
- [misc] taskstats: don't allow duplicate entries in listener mode 
(Jerome Marchand) [715449 715450] {CVE-2011-2484}
- [net] gro: Only reset frag0 when skb can be pulled (Herbert Xu) 
[726553 679682] {CVE-2011-2723}
- [xen] passthrough: block VT-d MSI trap injection (Paolo Bonzini) 
[716301 716302] {CVE-2011-1898}
- [xen] iommu: disable bus-mastering on hw that causes IOMMU fault 
(Laszlo Ersek) [730342 730343] {CVE-2011-3131}
- [usb] auerswald: fix buffer overflow (Don Zickus) [722395 722396] 
{CVE-2009-4067}
- [fs] cifs: fix possible memory corruption in CIFSFindNext (Jeff 
Layton) [732870 736654 732869 732471] {CVE-2011-3191}
- [fs] cifs: revert special handling for matching krb5 sessions (Jeff 
Layton) [697395 697396] {CVE-2011-1585}
- [fs] cifs: check for NULL session password (Jeff Layton) [697395 
697396] {CVE-2011-1585}
- [fs] cifs: fix NULL pointer dereference in cifs_find_smb_ses (Jeff 
Layton) [697395 697396] {CVE-2011-1585}
- [fs] cifs: clean up cifs_find_smb_ses (Jeff Layton) [697395 697396] 
{CVE-2011-1585}
- [net] be2net: account for skb allocation failures (Ivan Vecera) 
[733152 730108]
- [net] bnx2x: downgrade Max BW error message to debug (Michal Schmidt) 
[732440 727614]
- [net] sock: do not change prot->obj_size (Jiri Pirko) [736742 725713]
- [net] be2net: Fix Tx stall issue (Ivan Vecera) [732946 722549]
- [net] be2net: rx-dropped wraparound fix (Ivan Vecera) [732945 722302]
- [net] be2net: fix netdev_stats_update (Ivan Vecera) [732945 722302]
- [char] tpm: Fix uninitialized usage of data buffer (Stanislaw Gruszka) 
[684672 684673] {CVE-2011-1160}
- [fs] ext4: Fix max size and logical block counting of extent file 
(Lukas Czerner) [722562 722563] {CVE-2011-2695}
- [fs] nfs: have nfs_flush_list issue FLUSH_SYNC writes in parallel 
(Jeff Layton) [730686 728508]
- [xen] mm: fix race with ept_entry management (Andrew Jones) [730685 
729529]
- [xen] hvm: support more opcodes for MMIO (Paolo Bonzini) [728518 723755]

ocfs2:

[1.4.9-1.el5]
- Backport the discontig block group features from mainline ocfs2
   into EL5.x kernels







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