[El-errata] ELSA-2012-0007 Important: Oracle Linux 5 kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux
el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Thu Jan 12 15:27:46 PST 2012
Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2012-0007
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0007.html
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 5 have been uploaded to the
Unbreakable Linux Network:
i386:
kernel-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.i386.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
x86_64:
kernel-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ia64:
kernel-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol5/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.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-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5PAE-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5-1.4.9-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5PAE-1.4.9-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.9-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.9-1.el5.i686.rpm
x86_64:
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5-1.4.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ia64:
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5-1.4.9-1.el5.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.9-1.el5.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.9-1.el5.ia64.rpm
SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.el5-1.4.9-1.el5.src.rpm
Description of changes:
[2.6.18-274.17.1.0.1.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)
[2.6.18-274.17.1.el5]
- Revert: [block] add and use scsi_blk_cmd_ioctl (Paolo Bonzini)
[752385 752386] {CVE-2011-4127}
- Revert: [block] fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices
(Paolo Bonzini) [752385 752386]{CVE-2011-4127}
- Revert: [dm] do not forward ioctls from logical volumes to the
underlying device (Paolo Bonzini) [752385 752386] {CVE-2011-4127}
- Revert: [scsi] fix 32-on-64 block device ioctls (Paolo Bonzini)
[752385 752386] {CVE-2011-4127}
[2.6.18-274.16.1.el5]
- [scsi] fix 32-on-64 block device ioctls (Paolo Bonzini) [752385
752386] {CVE-2011-4127}
[2.6.18-274.15.1.el5]
- [net] e1000e: Avoid wrong check on TX hang (Dean Nelson) [766485 746272]
- [fs] xfs: Fix memory corruption in xfs_readlink (Carlos Maiolino)
[749159 749160] {CVE-2011-4077}
- [pci] intel-iommu: Default to non-coherent for unattached domains (Don
Dutile) [766803 753924]
- [fs] nfs: remove BUG() from encode_share_access() (Jeff Layton)
[755442 754901] {CVE-2011-4324}
- [misc] irq: Check for spurious IRQ only on disabled IRQs (Prarit
Bhargava) [759387 756412]
- [fs] hfs: add sanity check for file name length (Eric Sandeen) [755432
755433] {CVE-2011-4330}
- [fs] proc: Fix select on /proc files without ->poll (David Howells)
[755483 751214]
- [fs] nfs: Ensure we mark inode as dirty if early exit from commit
(Jeff Layton) [755482 714020]
- [x86] apic: ack all pending irqs when crashed/on kexec (hiro muneda)
[750460 742079]
- [virt] kvm: fix regression w/ 32 bit KVM clock (Rik van Riel) [747875
753789 751742 731599]
- [virt] kvm: fix lost tick accounting for 32 bit kvm-clock (Rik van
Riel) [747875 731599]
- [fs] jbd/jbd2: validate sb->s_first in journal_get_superblock (Eryu
Guan) [753343 706810] {CVE-2011-4132}
- [net] igb: enable link power down (Stefan Assmann) [752735 742514]
- [fs] proc: fix oops on invalid /proc/<pid>/maps access (Johannes
Weiner) [747851 747699] {CVE-2011-3637}
- [block] cciss: bump driver version (Tomas Henzl) [758024 714129]
- [block] cciss: need to delay after a PCI Power Management reset (Tomas
Henzl) [758024 714129]
- [block] cciss: auto engage scsi susbsystem (Tomas Henzl) [758024 714129]
- [block] cciss: store pdev in hba struct (Tomas Henzl) [758024 714129]
- [block] cciss: use consistent variable names (Tomas Henzl) [758024 714129]
- [block] cciss: add a commandline switch for simple mode (Tomas Henzl)
[758024 714129]
- [fs] proc: close race with exec in mem_read() (Johannes Weiner)
[692041 692042] {CVE-2011-1020}
- [mm] implement access_remote_vm (Johannes Weiner) [692041 692042]
{CVE-2011-1020}
- [mm] factor out main logic of access_process_vm (Johannes Weiner)
[692041 692042] {CVE-2011-1020}
- [mm] use mm_struct to resolve gate vma's in __get_user_pages (Johannes
Weiner) [692041 692042] {CVE-2011-1020}
- [mm] make in_gate_area take mm_struct instead of a task_struct
(Johannes Weiner) [692041 692042] {CVE-2011-1020}
- [mm] make get_gate_vma take mm_struct instead of task_struct (Johannes
Weiner) [692041 692042] {CVE-2011-1020}
- [x86_64] mark assoc mm when running task in 32 bit compat mode
(Johannes Weiner) [692041 692042] {CVE-2011-1020}
- [misc] sched: add ctx tag to mm running task in ia32 compat mode
(Johannes Weiner) [692041 692042] {CVE-2011-1020}
- [fs] proc: require the target to be tracable (or yourself) (Johannes
Weiner) [692041 692042] {CVE-2011-1020}
- [fs] proc: close race in /proc/*/environ (Johannes Weiner) [692041
692042] {CVE-2011-1020}
- [fs] proc: report errors in /proc/*/*map* sanely (Johannes Weiner)
[692041 692042] {CVE-2011-1020}
- [fs] proc: shift down_read(mmap_sem) to the caller (Johannes Weiner)
[692041 692042] {CVE-2011-1020}
- [fs] detect exec transition phase with new mm but old creds (Johannes
Weiner) [692041 692042] {CVE-2011-1020}
- [net] igb: fix i350 SR-IOV failture (Stefan Assmann) [741877 714313]
- [dm] do not forward ioctls from logical volumes to the underlying
device (Paolo Bonzini) [752385 752386] {CVE-2011-4127}
- [block] fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices (Paolo
Bonzini) [752385 752386] {CVE-2011-4127}
- [block] add and use scsi_blk_cmd_ioctl (Paolo Bonzini) [752385 752386]
{CVE-2011-4127}
- [fs] nfs: Fix an O_DIRECT Oops (Jeff Layton) [755457 754620]
{CVE-2011-4325}
- [net] sctp: Fix another race during accept/peeloff (Thomas Graf)
[757146 714870] {CVE-2011-4348}
- [scsi] isci: fix 32-bit operation when CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=n (Phillip
Lougher) [750458 713904]
- [net] tg3: Only allow phy ioctls while netif_running (Phillip Lougher)
[746343 683393]
[2.6.18-274.14.1.el5]
- [input] evdev: Fix spin lock context in evdev_pass_event() (Don
Zickus) [744147 734900]
- [fs] dcache: Fix dentry loop detection deadlock (David Howells)
[754129 717959]
- [input] evdev: disable interrupts when processing events (Don Zickus)
[744147 734900]
[2.6.18-274.13.1.el5]
- [fs] dcache: Log ELOOP rather than creating a loop (David Howells)
[754129 717959]
- [fs] dcache: Fix loop checks in d_materialise_unique (David Howells)
[754129 717959]
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