[El-errata] ELSA-2016-3595 Important: Oracle Linux 7 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

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Mon Aug 15 12:52:03 PDT 2016


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2016-3595

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-3595.html

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

x86_64:
kernel-uek-firmware-3.8.13-118.10.2.el7uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-3.8.13-118.10.2.el7uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-3.8.13-118.10.2.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-3.8.13-118.10.2.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-3.8.13-118.10.2.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-3.8.13-118.10.2.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.10.2.el7uek-0.4.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-3.8.13-118.10.2.el7uek.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.10.2.el7uek-0.4.5-3.el7.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[3.8.13-118.10.2.el7uek]
- tcp: make challenge acks less predictable (Eric Dumazet)  [Orabug: 
24010012] [Orabug: 2401010]  {CVE-2016-5696}

[3.8.13-118.10.1.el7uek]
- ocfs2: call ocfs2_journal_access_di() before ocfs2_journal_dirty() in 
ocfs2_write_end_nolock() (yangwenfang)  [Orabug: 19601200]
- ocfs2: improve recovery performance (Junxiao Bi)  [Orabug: 24395691]




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