[El-errata] ELSA-2012-2047 Moderate: Oracle Linux 5 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Thu Dec 20 07:11:41 PST 2012


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2012-2047

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

i386:
kernel-uek-2.6.39-300.17.3.el5uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-300.17.3.el5uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-300.17.3.el5uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-300.17.3.el5uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-300.17.3.el5uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-300.17.3.el5uek.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-300.17.3.el5uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-300.17.3.el5uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-2.6.39-300.17.3.el5uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-300.17.3.el5uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-300.17.3.el5uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-300.17.3.el5uek.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol5/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-2.6.39-300.17.3.el5uek.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.6.39-300.17.3.el5uek]
- mm/hotplug: correctly add new zone to all other nodes' zone lists 
(Jiang Liu)
   [Orabug: 16020976 Bug-db: 14798] {CVE-2012-5517}
- Divide by zero in TCP congestion control Algorithm. (Jesper Dangaard 
Brouer)
   [Orabug: 16020656 Bug-db: 14798] {CVE-2012-4565}
- Fix length of buffer copied in __nfs4_get_acl_uncached (Sachin Prabhu) 
[Bug-
   db: 14798] {CVE-2012-2375}
- Avoid reading past buffer when calling GETACL (Sachin Prabhu) [Bug-db: 
14798]
   {CVE-2012-2375}
- Avoid beyond bounds copy while caching ACL (Sachin Prabhu) [Bug-db: 14798]
   {CVE-2012-2375}




More information about the El-errata mailing list