[El-errata] ELSA-2013-2523 Important: Oracle Linux 5 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security and bugfix update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Fri May 10 08:52:39 PDT 2013


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2013-2523

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

i386:
kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.23.1.el5uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-400.23.1.el5uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-400.23.1.el5uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-400.23.1.el5uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-400.23.1.el5uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-400.23.1.el5uek.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-400.23.1.el5uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-400.23.1.el5uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.23.1.el5uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-400.23.1.el5uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-400.23.1.el5uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-400.23.1.el5uek.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol5/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.23.1.el5uek.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.6.39-400.23.1.el5uek]
- Parallel mtrr init between cpus (Zhenzhong Duan) [Orabug: 16777774]
- Merge tag 'v2.6.39-400.21.1.16748891' of 
git://ca-git.us.oracle.com/linux-uek-2.6.39-ofed into uek-2.6.39-400 
(Maxim Uvarov) [Orabug: 16748891]
- xen-blkfront: use a different scatterlist for each request (Roger Pau 
Monne)
- Fix EN driver to work with newer FWs based on latest mlx4_core (Yuval 
Shaia) [Orabug: 16748891]

[2.6.39-400.22.1.el5uek]
- block: default SCSI command filter does not accomodate commands 
overlap across device classes (Jamie Iles) [Orabug: 16387137] 
{CVE-2012-4542}
- Merge tag 'v2.6.39-400.21.1#bug16684527' of 
git://ca-git.us.oracle.com/linux-joejin-public into 
uek-2.6.39-400_errata (Maxim Uvarov) [Orabug: 16684527]
- KVM: x86: Convert MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME to use gfn_to_hva_cache 
functions (CVE-2013-1797) (Andy Honig) [Orabug: 16711660] {CVE-2013-1797}
- Bluetooth: Fix incorrect strncpy() in hidp_setup_hid() (Anderson 
Lizardo) [Orabug: 16711065] {CVE-2013-0349}
- USB: io_ti: Fix NULL dereference in chase_port() (Wolfgang Frisch) 
[Orabug: 16425358] {CVE-2013-1774}
- keys: fix race with concurrent install_user_keyrings() (David Howells) 
[Orabug: 16493354] {CVE-2013-1792}
- KVM: Fix bounds checking in ioapic indirect register reads 
(CVE-2013-1798) (Andy Honig) [Orabug: 16710951] {CVE-2013-1798}
- KVM: x86: fix for buffer overflow in handling of MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME 
(CVE-2013-1796) (Andy Honig) [Orabug: 16710806] {CVE-2013-1796}
- tmpfs: fix use-after-free of mempolicy object (Greg Thelen) [Orabug: 
16515833] {CVE-2013-1767}
- procfs: do not confuse jiffies with cputime64_t (Andreas Schwab) 
[Orabug: 16673925]
- procfs: do not overflow get_{idle,iowait}_time for nohz (Michal Hocko) 
[Orabug: 16673925]
- xen/evtchn: Handle VIRQ_TIMER before any other hardirq in event loop. 
(Keir Fraser) [Orabug: 16093126]
- Fix device removal NULL pointer dereference (Joe Jin) [Orabug: 16684527]
- put stricter guards on queue dead checks (James Bottomley) [Orabug: 
16684527]






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