[El-errata] ELSA-2012-0312 Low: Oracle Linux 5 initscripts security and bug fix update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Wed Mar 7 15:40:45 PST 2012


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2012-0312

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0312.html

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

i386:
initscripts-8.45.42-1.0.1.el5.i386.rpm

x86_64:
initscripts-8.45.42-1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
initscripts-8.45.42-1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol5/SRPMS-updates/initscripts-8.45.42-1.0.1.el5.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[8.45.42-1.0.1.el5]
- Update oracle-enterprise.patch to do detection on /etc/oracle-release
   and /etc/enterprise-release
- Patch x86_64 sysctl.conf as well as default sysctl.conf
- Patch sysctl.conf to default rp_filter to loose reverse path
   filtering (has no effect for pre-2.6.32 kernels) [orabug 10286227]
- Move hwclock into udev rules
- Update oracle-enterprise.patch to fix RedHat references in arch specific
   sysctl.conf files in source tarball
- Add oracle-enterprise.patch and update specfile
- Don't attempt to re-enslave already-enslaved devices (#455537) 
(pknirsch at redhat.com)

[8.45.42-1]
- changed exchange_mode to "main, aggressive" (#435274)

[8.45.41-1]
- fix check for dhcp6c pid (#568896)

[8.45.40-1]
- exit arping on first response (#744734)

[8.45.39-1]
- suppress remove error message during boot (#679998)
- fix logic error with removing arp_ip_target (#745681)





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