[El-errata] New updates available via Ksplice (ELSA-2014-3009)

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Synopsis: ELSA-2014-3009 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2013-2929 CVE-2013-7263 CVE-2013-7265

Users with Oracle Linux Premier Support can now use Ksplice to patch
against the latest Oracle Security Advisory, ELSA-2014-3009.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack on EL 5 install these
updates.

On systems that have "autoinstall = yes" in /etc/uptrack/uptrack.conf,
these updates will be installed automatically and you do not need to
take any action.

Alternatively, you can install these updates by running:

# /usr/sbin/uptrack-upgrade -y


DESCRIPTION

* CVE-2013-7263, CVE-2013-7265: Information leak in IPv4, IPv6 and PhoNet socket
recvmsg.

The IPv4, IPv6 and PhoNet recvmsg(2) ioctls do not initialise the length a
network address causing the contents of kernel memory to be disclosed to
userspace under certain circumstances.


* CVE-2013-2929: Incorrect permissions check in ptrace with dropped privileges.

The ptrace subsystem incorrectly checked the state of the fs.suid_dumpable
sysctl allowing a user to ptrace attach to a process if it had dropped
privileges to that user.

SUPPORT

Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com.