[El-errata] ELSA-2013-0744 Important: Oracle Linux 6 kernel security and bug fix update

Wed Apr 24 09:30:44 PDT 2013

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2013-0744

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0744.html

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

i386:
kernel-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.i686.rpm
perf-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.i686.rpm
python-perf-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
perf-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.src.rpm

Description of changes:

[2.6.32-358.6.1.el6]
- [virt] kvm: accept unaligned MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME writes (Petr 
Matousek) [917020 917021] {CVE-2013-1796}
- [char] tty: hold lock across tty buffer finding and buffer filling 
(Prarit Bhargava) [928686 901780]
- [net] tcp: fix for zero packets_in_flight was too broad (Thomas Graf) 
[927309 920794]
- [net] tcp: frto should not set snd_cwnd to 0 (Thomas Graf) [927309 920794]
- [net] tcp: fix an infinite loop in tcp_slow_start() (Thomas Graf) 
[927309 920794]
- [net] tcp: fix ABC in tcp_slow_start() (Thomas Graf) [927309 920794]
- [netdrv] ehea: avoid accessing a NULL vgrp (Steve Best) [921535 911359]
- [net] sunrpc: Get rid of the redundant xprt->shutdown bit field (J. 
Bruce Fields) [915579 893584]
- [virt] kvm: do not #GP on unaligned MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME write (Gleb 
Natapov) [917020 917021] {CVE-2013-1796}
- [drm] i915: bounds check execbuffer relocation count (Nikola 
Pajkovsky) [920523 920525] {CVE-2013-0913}
- [x86] irq: add quirk for broken interrupt remapping on 55XX chipsets 
(Neil Horman) [911267 887006]
- [kvm] Convert MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME to use gfn_to_hva_cache functions 
(Gleb Natapov) [917024 917025] {CVE-2013-1797}
- [kvm] Fix for buffer overflow in handling of MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME (Gleb 
Natapov) [917020 917021] {CVE-2013-1796}
- [kvm] Fix bounds checking in ioapic indirect register reads (Gleb 
Natapov) [917030 917032] {CVE-2013-1798}
- [kvm] x86: release kvmclock page on reset (Gleb Natapov) [917024 
917025] {CVE-2013-1797}
- [security] keys: Fix race with concurrent install_user_keyrings() 
(David Howells) [916681 913258] {CVE-2013-1792}
- [virt] hv_balloon: Make adjustments to the pressure report (Jason 
Wang) [909156 902232]

[2.6.32-358.5.1.el6]
- [fs] xfs: use maximum schedule timeout when ail is empty (Brian 
Foster) [921958 883905]
- [net] xfrm_user: fix info leak in copy_to_user_tmpl() (Thomas Graf) 
[922428 922429] {CVE-2012-6537}
- [net] xfrm_user: fix info leak in copy_to_user_policy() (Thomas Graf) 
[922428 922429] {CVE-2012-6537}
- [net] xfrm_user: fix info leak in copy_to_user_state() (Thomas Graf) 
[922428 922429] {CVE-2012-6537}
- [net] xfrm_user: fix info leak in copy_to_user_auth() (Thomas Graf) 
[922428 922429] {CVE-2012-6537}
- [net] atm: fix info leak in getsockopt(SO_ATMPVC) (Thomas Graf) 
[922386 922387] {CVE-2012-6546}
- [net] atm: fix info leak via getsockname() (Thomas Graf) [922386 
922387] {CVE-2012-6546}
- [fs] nls: improve UTF8 -> UTF16 string conversion routine (Nikola 
Pajkovsky) [916118 916119] {CVE-2013-1773}
- [fs] fat: Fix stat->f_namelen (Nikola Pajkovsky) [916118 916119] 
{CVE-2013-1773}
- [netdrv] tun: fix ioctl() based info leaks (Thomas Graf) [922350 
922351] {CVE-2012-6547}
- [virt] x86: Add a check to catch Xen emulation of Hyper-V (Andrew 
Jones) [923204 918239]
- [fs] cifs: fix expand_dfs_referral (Sachin Prabhu) [923098 902492]
- [fs] cifs: factor smb_vol allocation out of cifs_setup_volume_info 
(Sachin Prabhu) [923098 902492]
- [fs] cifs: have cifs_cleanup_volume_info not take a double pointer 
(Sachin Prabhu) [923098 902492]
- [fs] nfs: Dont allow NFS silly-renamed files to be deleted, no signal 
(Dave Wysochanski) [920266 905095]

[2.6.32-358.4.1.el6]
- [fs] NLM: Ensure that we resend all pending blocking locks after a 
reclaim (Steve Dickson) [921150 913704]
- [fs] xfs: remove log force from xfs_buf_cond_lock() (Brian Foster) 
[921961 896224]
- [fs] xfs: recheck buffer pinned status after push trylock failure 
(Brian Foster) [921961 896224]
- [fs] nfs: Ensure that we check lock exclusive/shared type against open 
modes (Dave Wysochanski) [920268 916324]
- [powerpc] pseries: Fix partition migration hang in 
stop_topology_update (Steve Best) [921963 910597]
- [infiniband] qib: correction for faulty sparse warning correction (Jay 
Fenlason) [922154 901701]
- [usb] io_ti: Fix NULL dereference in chase_port() (Nikola Pajkovsky) 
[916198 916200] {CVE-2013-1774}
- [net] bluetooth: Fix incorrect strncpy() in hidp_setup_hid() (Nikola 
Pajkovsky) [914690 914691] {CVE-2013-0349}
- [char] tty: set_termios/set_termiox should not return -EINTR (Oleg 
Nesterov) [921145 904907]
- [netdrv] ehea: fix VLAN support (Steve Best) [921535 911359]
- [net] xfrm_user: return error pointer instead of NULL (Thomas Graf) 
[919388 919389] {CVE-2013-1826}
- [net] dccp: check ccid before NULL poiter dereference (Weiping Pan) 
[919187 919188] {CVE-2013-1827}
- [mm] tmpfs: fix use-after-free of mempolicy object (Nikola Pajkovsky) 
[915714 915715] {CVE-2013-1767}
- [fs] fuse: set page_descs length in fuse_buffered_write() (Brian 
Foster) [916957 915135]
- [fs] vfs: fix pointer dereference validation in d_validate (Carlos 
Maiolino) [915583 876600]
- [fs] cifs: after upcalling for krb5 creds, invalidate key rather than 
revoking it (Niels de Vos) [912452 885899]
- [fs] cifs: tmp_key_invalidate() should not set key->expiry to 0 (Niels 
de Vos) [912452 885899]
- [block] disable discard request merge temporarily (Mike Snitzer) 
[911475 907844]

[2.6.32-358.3.1.el6]
- [net] netfilter: improve out-of-sync situation in TCP tracking (Flavio 
Leitner) [917690 629857]