[El-errata] ELSA-2015-0986 Moderate: Oracle Linux 7 kexec-tools security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Tue May 12 12:23:40 PDT 2015


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2015-0986

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0986.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kexec-tools-2.0.7-19.0.1.el7_1.2.x86_64.rpm
kexec-tools-anaconda-addon-2.0.7-19.0.1.el7_1.2.x86_64.rpm
kexec-tools-eppic-2.0.7-19.0.1.el7_1.2.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/kexec-tools-2.0.7-19.0.1.el7_1.2.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.0.7-19.0.1.el7_1.2]
- kdumpctl: exclude default_hugepagesz setting from kdump kernel cmdline
  (Sriharsha Yadagudde) [Orabug: 19134999]
- kdumpctl: verify if kernel support securelevel interface
   (Sriharsha Yadagudde) [Orabug: 18905671]

[2.0.7-19.2]
- dracut-module-setup: Enhance kdump to support the bind mounted feature 
in Atomic
- Fix the warning if the target path is bind mount in Atomic
- Get the mount point correctly, if the device has several mount point
- kdump-lib: Add new function to judge the system is Atomic or not
- kdump-lib: Add the new function to enhance bind mounted judgement
- Remove duplicate slash in save path
- dracut-module-setup.sh: change the insecure use of /tmp/*$$* filenames

[2.0.7-19.1]
- sadump: Support more than 16TB physical memory space.





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