[El-errata] ELSA-2013-0168-1 Moderate: Oracle Linux 5 kernel security and bug fix update

Wed Jan 23 16:10:13 PST 2013

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2013-0168-1

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0168.html

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

i386:
kernel-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.i386.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
kernel-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol5/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.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-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5PAE-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5PAE-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm

x86_64:
oracleasm-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
oracleasm-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.10-1.el5.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.10-1.el5.ia64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.src.rpm

Description of changes:

kernel
[2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5]
- [oprofile] x86, mm: Add __get_user_pages_fast() [orabug 14277030]
- [oprofile] export __get_user_pages_fast() function [orabug 14277030]
- [oprofile] oprofile, x86: Fix nmi-unsafe callgraph support [orabug 
14277030]
- [oprofile] oprofile: use KM_NMI slot for kmap_atomic [orabug 14277030]
- [oprofile] oprofile: i386 add get_user_pages_fast support [orabug 
14277030]
- [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]
- [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]
- 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] Patch shrink_zone to yield during severe mempressure events, avoiding
   hangs and evictions (John Sobecki,Chris Mason) [orabug 6086839]
- [mm] Enhance shrink_zone patch allow full swap utilization, and also be
   NUMA-aware (John Sobecki,Chris Mason,Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 
9245919]
- fix aacraid not to reset during kexec (Joe Jin) [orabug 8516042]
- [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]

[2.6.18-348.1.1.el5]
- [pci] intel-iommu: reduce max num of domains supported (Don Dutile) 
[886876 885125]
- [fs] gfs2: Fix leak of cached directory hash table (Steven Whitehouse) 
[886124 831330]
- [x86] mm: randomize SHLIB_BASE (Petr Matousek) [804953 804954] 
{CVE-2012-1568}
- [net] be2net: create RSS rings even in multi-channel configs (Ivan 
Vecera) [884702 878209]
- [net] tg3: Avoid dma read error (John Feeney) [885692 877474]
- [misc] Fix unsupported hardware message (Prarit Bhargava) [885063 876587]
- [net] ipv6: discard overlapping fragment (Jiri Pirko) [874837 874838] 
{CVE-2012-4444}
- [usb] Fix serial port reference counting on hotplug remove (Don 
Zickus) [885700 845447]
- [net] bridge: export its presence and fix bonding igmp reporting 
(Veaceslav Falico) [884742 843473]
- [fs] nfs: move wait for server->active from put_super to kill_sb (Jeff 
Layton) [884708 839839]
- [scsi] libfc: fix indefinite rport restart (Neil Horman) [884740 595184]
- [scsi] libfc: Retry a rejected PRLI request (Neil Horman) [884740 595184]
- [scsi] libfc: Fix remote port restart problem (Neil Horman) [884740 
595184]
- [xen] memop: limit guest specified extent order (Laszlo Ersek) [878449 
878450] {CVE-2012-5515}
- [xen] get bottom of EBDA from the multiboot data structure (Paolo 
Bonzini) [885062 881885]