[El-errata] ELSA-2012-1323-1 Important: Oracle Linux 5 kernel security and bug fix update
Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux
el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Thu Oct 4 06:40:14 PDT 2012
Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2012-1323-1
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1323.html
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 5 have been uploaded to the
Unbreakable Linux Network:
i386:
kernel-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.i386.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
x86_64:
kernel-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ia64:
kernel-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol5/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.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-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5PAE-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5PAE-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm
x86_64:
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ia64:
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.10-1.el5.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.10-1.el5.ia64.rpm
SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.src.rpm
Description of changes:
kernel
[2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5]
- [kernel] Initialize the local uninitialized variable stats. [orabug
14051367]
- [fs] JBD:make jbd support 512B blocks correctly for ocfs2. [orabug
13477763]
- [x86 ] fix fpu context corrupt when preempt in signal context [orabug
14038272]
- [net] bonding: fix carrier detect when bond is down [orabug 12377284]
- [mm] fix hugetlb page leak (Dave McCracken) [orabug 12375075]
- 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)
- [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]
- [net] net: Redo the broken redhat netconsole over bonding (Tina Yang)
[orabug 12740042]
- [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]
[2.6.18-308.16.1.el5]
- Revert: [fs] nfsd4: Remove check for a 32-bit cookie in
nfsd4_readdir() (Eric Sandeen) [847943 784191]
- Revert: [fs] add new FMODE flags: FMODE_32bithash and FMODE_64bithash
(Eric Sandeen) [847943 784191]
- Revert: [fs] nfsd: rename 'int access' to 'int may_flags' in
nfsd_open() (Eric Sandeen) [847943 784191]
- Revert: [fs] nfsd: vfs_llseek() with 32 or 64 bit offsets (hashes)
(Eric Sandeen) [847943 784191]
- Revert: [fs] vfs: add generic_file_llseek_size (Eric Sandeen) [847943
784191]
- Revert: [s390/ppc64] add is_compat_task() for s390 and ppc64 (Eric
Sandeen) [847943 784191]
- Revert: [fs] ext3: return 32/64-bit dir name hash according to usage
type (Eric Sandeen) [847943 784191]
- Revert: [fs] ext4: improve llseek error handling for large seek
offsets (Eric Sandeen) [847943 784191]
- Revert: [fs] ext4: return 32/64-bit dir name hash according to usage
type (Eric Sandeen) [847943 784191]
- Revert: [fs] vfs: allow custom EOF in generic_file_llseek code (Eric
Sandeen) [847943 784191]
- Revert: [fs] ext4: use core vfs llseek code for dir seeks (Eric
Sandeen) [847943 784191]
- Revert: [fs] ext3: pass custom EOF to generic_file_llseek_size() (Eric
Sandeen) [847943 784191]
[2.6.18-308.15.1.el5]
- [net] sfc: Fix max no of TSO segments and min TX queue size (Michal
Schmidt) [845554 845555] {CVE-2012-3412}
- [kernel] xacct_add_tsk: fix pure theoretical ->mm use-after-free
(Nikola Pajkovsky) [849723 849725] {CVE-2012-3510}
- [fs] hfsplus: Buffer overflow in the HFS plus filesystem (Jacob
Tanenbaum) [820255 820256] {CVE-2012-2319}
- [net] netfilter: add dscp netfilter match (Thomas Graf) [847327 842029]
- [net] rds: set correct msg_namelen (Weiping Pan) [822727 822728]
{CVE-2012-3430}
- [misc] ERESTARTNOINTR seen from fork call in userspace (Oleg Nesterov)
[847359 693822]
- [fs] quota: manage reserved space when quota is not active (Eric
Sandeen) [847326 818087]
- [fs] quota: Fix warning if delayed write before quota is enabled (Eric
Sandeen) [847326 818087]
- [fs] ext3: pass custom EOF to generic_file_llseek_size() (Eric
Sandeen) [847943 784191]
- [fs] ext4: use core vfs llseek code for dir seeks (Eric Sandeen)
[847943 784191]
- [fs] vfs: allow custom EOF in generic_file_llseek code (Eric Sandeen)
[847943 784191]
- [fs] ext4: return 32/64-bit dir name hash according to usage type
(Eric Sandeen) [847943 784191]
- [fs] ext4: improve llseek error handling for large seek offsets (Eric
Sandeen) [847943 784191]
- [fs] ext3: return 32/64-bit dir name hash according to usage type
(Eric Sandeen) [847943 784191]
- [s390/ppc64] add is_compat_task() for s390 and ppc64 (Eric Sandeen)
[847943 784191]
- [fs] vfs: add generic_file_llseek_size (Eric Sandeen) [847943 784191]
- [fs] nfsd: vfs_llseek() with 32 or 64 bit offsets (hashes) (Eric
Sandeen) [847943 784191]
- [fs] nfsd: rename 'int access' to 'int may_flags' in nfsd_open() (Eric
Sandeen) [847943 784191]
- [fs] add new FMODE flags: FMODE_32bithash and FMODE_64bithash (Eric
Sandeen) [847943 784191]
- [fs] nfsd4: Remove check for a 32-bit cookie in nfsd4_readdir() (Eric
Sandeen) [847943 784191]
- [xen] x86: whitelist Enhanced SpeedStep for dom0 (Laszlo Ersek)
[846125 809103]
[2.6.18-308.14.1.el5]
- [net] e1000e: drop check of RXCW.CW to eliminate link up and down
(Dean Nelson) [852448 840642]
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