[El-errata] ELSA-2016-3510 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

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Wed Jan 20 09:04:33 PST 2016


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2016-3510

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-3510.html

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

x86_64:
kernel-uek-4.1.12-32.1.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12-32.1.2.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-32.1.2.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12-32.1.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12-32.1.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12-32.1.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
dtrace-modules-4.1.12-32.1.2.el6uek-0.5.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-4.1.12-32.1.2.el6uek.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/dtrace-modules-4.1.12-32.1.2.el6uek-0.5.1-1.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:

kernel-uek
[4.1.12-32.1.2.el6uek]
- KEYS: Fix keyring ref leak in join_session_keyring() (Yevgeny Pats) 
[Orabug: 22563965]  {CVE-2016-0728}

[4.1.12-32.1.1.el6uek]
- ocfs2: return non-zero st_blocks for inline data (John Haxby) [Orabug: 
22218243]
- xen/events/fifo: Consume unprocessed events when a CPU dies (Ross 
Lagerwall) [Orabug: 22498877]
- Revert "xen/fb: allow xenfb initialization for hvm guests" (Konrad 
Rzeszutek Wilk)
- xen/pciback: Don't allow MSI-X ops if PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY is not set. 
(Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk)
- xen/pciback: For XEN_PCI_OP_disable_msi[|x] only disable if device has 
MSI(X) enabled. (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk)
- xen/pciback: Do not install an IRQ handler for MSI interrupts. (Konrad 
Rzeszutek Wilk)
- xen/pciback: Return error on XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msix when device has 
MSI or MSI-X enabled (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk)
- xen/pciback: Return error on XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msi when device has MSI 
or MSI-X enabled (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk)
- xen/pciback: Save xen_pci_op commands before processing it (Konrad 
Rzeszutek Wilk)
- xen-scsiback: safely copy requests (David Vrabel) - xen-blkback: read 
from indirect descriptors only once (Roger Pau Monné)
- xen-blkback: only read request operation from shared ring once (Roger 
Pau Monné)
- xen-netback: use RING_COPY_REQUEST() throughout (David Vrabel)
- xen-netback: don't use last request to determine minimum Tx credit 
(David Vrabel)
- xen: Add RING_COPY_REQUEST() (David Vrabel)






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