[El-errata] ELSA-2016-3652 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2016-3652

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-3652.html

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

i386:
kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.293.1.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-400.293.1.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-400.293.1.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-400.293.1.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-400.293.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-400.293.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-400.293.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-400.293.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.293.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-400.293.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-400.293.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-400.293.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.293.1.el6uek.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.6.39-400.293.1.el6uek]
- logging errors that get masked to EIO inside drivers/block/loop.c 
(Manjunath Patil)  [Orabug: 21962821]
- sched/core: Clear the root_domain cpumasks in init_rootdomain() 
(Xunlei Pang)  [Orabug: 23518650]
- bio allocation failure due to bio_get_nr_vecs() (Darrick J. Wong) 
[Orabug: 23852442]
- mlx4: avoid ABBA deadlock (Wengang Wang)  [Orabug: 23538548]
- mlx4: avoid multiple free on id_map_ent (Wengang Wang)  [Orabug: 
25022815]
- sctp: validate chunk len before actually using it (Marcelo Ricardo 
Leitner)  [Orabug: 25142906]  {CVE-2016-9555}

[2.6.39-400.292.1.el6uek]
- NVMe: reduce queue depth as workaround for Samsung EPIC SQ errata 
(Ashok Vairavan)  [Orabug: 25138146]

[2.6.39-400.291.1.el6uek]
- RDS: Drop the connection as part of cancel to avoid hangs (Avinash 
Repaka)  [Orabug: 24951873]