[El-errata] ELSA-2013-2513 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security and bug fix update

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Fri Apr 12 08:56:54 PDT 2013


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2013-2513

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.21.1.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-400.21.1.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-400.21.1.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-400.21.1.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-400.21.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-400.21.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-400.21.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-400.21.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.21.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-400.21.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-400.21.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-400.21.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.21.1.el6uek.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.6.39-400.21.1.el6uek]
- SPEC: v2.6.39-400.21.1 (Maxim Uvarov)
- xen/mmu: On early bootup, flush the TLB when changing RO->RW bits Xen 
provided pagetables. (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk)

[2.6.39-400.20.1.el6uek]
- SPEC: v2.6.39-400.20.1 (Maxim Uvarov)
- PCI: Set device power state to PCI_D0 for device without native PM 
support (Ajaykumar Hotchandani) [Orabug: 16482495]
- sched: Fix cgroup movement of waking process (Daisuke Nishimura) 
[Orabug: 13740515]
- sched: Fix cgroup movement of newly created process (Daisuke 
Nishimura) [Orabug: 13740515]
- sched: Fix cgroup movement of forking process (Daisuke Nishimura) 
[Orabug: 13740515]

[2.6.39-400.19.1.el6uek]
- IB/core: Allow device-specific per-port sysfs files (Ralph Campbell)
- RDMA/cma: Pass QP type into rdma_create_id() (Sean Hefty)
- IB: Rename RAW_ETY to RAW_ETHERTYPE (Aleksey Senin)
- IB: Warning Resolution. (Ajaykumar Hotchandani)
- mlx4_core: fix FMR flags in free MTT range (Saeed Mahameed)
- mlx4_core/ib: sriov fmr bug fixes (Saeed Mahameed)
- mlx4_core: Change bitmap allocator to work in round-robin fashion (Saeed
   Mahameed)
- mlx4_vnic: move host admin vnics to closed state when closing the vnic.
   (Saeed Mahameed)
- mlx4_ib: make sure to flush clean_wq while closing sriov device (Saeed
   Mahameed)
- ib_sdp: fix deadlock when sdp_cma_handler is called while socket is being
   closed (Saeed Mahameed)
- ib_sdp: add unhandled events to rdma_cm_event_str (Saeed Mahameed)
- mlx4_core: use dev->sriov instead of hardcoed 127 vfs when 
initializing FMR
   MPT tables (Saeed Mahameed)
- mlx4_vnic: print vnic keep alive info in mlx4_vnic_info (Saeed Mahameed)
- rds: Congestion flag does not get cleared causing the connection to hang
   (Bang Nguyen) [Orabug: 16424692]
- dm table: set flush capability based on underlying devices (Mike Snitzer)
   [Orabug: 16392584]
- wake_up_process() should be never used to wakeup a TASK_STOPPED/TRACED 
task
   (Oleg Nesterov) [Orabug: 16405869] {CVE-2013-0871}
- ptrace: ensure arch_ptrace/ptrace_request can never race with SIGKILL 
(Oleg
   Nesterov) [Orabug: 16405869] {CVE-2013-0871}
- ptrace: introduce signal_wake_up_state() and ptrace_signal_wake_up() (Oleg
   Nesterov) [Orabug: 16405869] {CVE-2013-0871}
- drm/i915: bounds check execbuffer relocation count (Kees Cook) [Orabug:
   16482650] {CVE-2013-0913}
- NLS: improve UTF8 -> UTF16 string conversion routine (Alan Stern) [Orabug:
   16425571] {CVE-2013-1773}
- ipmi: make kcs timeout parameters as module options (Pavel Bures) [Orabug:
   16470881]
- drm/i915/lvds: ditch ->prepare special case (Daniel Vetter) [Orabug:
   14394113]
- drm/i915: Leave LVDS registers unlocked (Keith Packard) [Orabug: 14394113]
- drm/i915: don't clobber the pipe param in sanitize_modesetting (Daniel
   Vetter) [Orabug: 14394113]
- drm/i915: Sanitize BIOS debugging bits from PIPECONF (Chris Wilson) 
[Orabug:
   14394113]

[2.6.39-400.18.1.el6uek]
- SPEC: fix doc build (Guru Anbalagane)
- floppy: Fix a crash during rmmod (Vivek Goyal) [Orabug: 16040504]
- x86: ignore changes to paravirt_lazy_mode while in an interrupt context
   (Chuck Anderson) [Orabug: 16417326]
- x86/msr: Add capabilities check (Alan Cox) [Orabug: 16405007] 
{CVE-2013-0268}
- spec: unique debuginfo (Maxim Uvarov) [Orabug: 16245366]
- xfs: Use preallocation for inodes with extsz hints (Dave Chinner) [Orabug:
   16307993]
- Add SIOCRDSGETTOS to get the current TOS for the socket (bang.nguyen)
   [Orabug: 16397197]
- Changes to connect/TOS interface (bang.nguyen) [Orabug: 16397197]
- floppy: Cleanup disk->queue before caling put_disk() if add_disk() was 
never
   called (Vivek Goyal) [Orabug: 16040504]




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