[El-errata] ELSA-2016-3589 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2016-3589

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-3589.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.283.1.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-400.283.1.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-400.283.1.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-400.283.1.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-400.283.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-400.283.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-400.283.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-400.283.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.283.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-400.283.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-400.283.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-400.283.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.283.1.el6uek.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.6.39-400.283.1.el6uek]
- atl2: Disable unimplemented scatter/gather feature (Ben Hutchings) 
[Orabug: 23703990]  {CVE-2016-2117}
- mlx4_core: add module parameter to disable background init (Mukesh 
Kacker)  [Orabug: 23292107]
- NFSv4: Don't decode fs_locations if we didn't ask for them... (Trond 
Myklebust)  [Orabug: 23633714]
- mm/slab: Improve performance of slabinfo stats gathering (Aruna 
Ramakrishna)  [Orabug: 23050884]
- offload ib subnet manager port and node get info query handling. (Rama 
Nichanamatlu)  [Orabug: 22521735]