[El-errata] New updates available via Ksplice (ELSA-2014-3041)

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Synopsis: ELSA-2014-3041 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2014-1737 CVE-2014-1738

Users with Oracle Linux Premier Support can now use Ksplice to patch
against the latest Oracle Security Advisory, ELSA-2014-3041.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack on EL 6 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-2014-1737, CVE-2014-1738: Local privilege escalation in floppy ioctl.

The floppy driver would leak internal memory addresses to userspace,
and would allow unprivileged userspace code to overwrite those
addresses, allowing for a local privilege escalation and gaining
of root.

SUPPORT

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