[El-errata] ELSA-2015-1925 Important: Oracle Linux 5 kvm security update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Thu Oct 22 20:31:20 PDT 2015


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2015-1925

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-1925.html

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

x86_64:
kmod-kvm-83-274.0.1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kmod-kvm-debug-83-274.0.1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kvm-83-274.0.1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kvm-qemu-img-83-274.0.1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kvm-tools-83-274.0.1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol5/SRPMS-updates/kvm-83-274.0.1.el5_11.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[kvm-83-274.0.1.el5]
- Added kvm-add-oracle-workaround-for-libvirt-bug.patch
- Added kvm-Introduce-oel-machine-type.patch

[kvm-83.274.el5]
- net-add-checks-to-validate-ring-buffer-pointers.patch [bz#1263272]
- Resolves: bz#1263272
   (CVE-2015-5279 kvm: qemu: Heap overflow vulnerability in 
ne2000_receive() function [rhel-5.11.z])





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