[El-errata] ELSA-2016-3648 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Wed Dec 7 20:04:02 PST 2016


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2016-3648

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-3648.html

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

x86_64:
kernel-uek-4.1.12-61.1.22.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12-61.1.22.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-61.1.22.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12-61.1.22.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12-61.1.22.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12-61.1.22.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
dtrace-modules-4.1.12-61.1.22.el6uek-0.5.3-2.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-4.1.12-61.1.22.el6uek.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/dtrace-modules-4.1.12-61.1.22.el6uek-0.5.3-2.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:

kernel-uek
[4.1.12-61.1.22.el6uek]
- ocfs2: fix trans extend while free cached blocks (Junxiao Bi) 
[Orabug: 25136991]
- ocfs2: fix trans extend while flush truncate log (Junxiao Bi) 
[Orabug: 25136991]
- ocfs2: extend enough credits for freeing one truncate record while 
replaying truncate records (Xue jiufei)  [Orabug: 25136991]
- mpi: Fix NULL ptr dereference in mpi_powm() [ver #3] (Andrey Ryabinin) 
  [Orabug: 25154096]  {CVE-2016-8650} {CVE-2016-8650}
- mlx4: avoid multiple free on id_map_ent (Wengang Wang)  [Orabug: 25159035]

[4.1.12-61.1.21.el6uek]
- NVMe: reduce queue depth as workaround for Samsung EPIC SQ errata 
(Ashok Vairavan)  [Orabug: 25144380]
- sctp: validate chunk len before actually using it (Marcelo Ricardo 
Leitner)  [Orabug: 25142868]  {CVE-2016-9555}

[4.1.12-61.1.20.el6uek]
- rebuild bumping release




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