[El-errata] ELSA-2016-3573 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Mon Jun 13 16:29:09 PDT 2016


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2016-3573

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-3573.html

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


x86_64:
kernel-uek-firmware-3.8.13-118.7.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-3.8.13-118.7.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-3.8.13-118.7.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-3.8.13-118.7.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-3.8.13-118.7.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-3.8.13-118.7.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.7.1.el6uek-0.4.5-3.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-3.8.13-118.7.1.el6uek.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.7.1.el6uek-0.4.5-3.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:

kernel-uek
[3.8.13-118.7.1.el6uek]
- megaraid_sas : Update threshold based reply post host index register 
(Sumit.Saxena at avagotech.com)  [Orabug: 23562756]
- xen/events: Don't move disabled irqs (Ross Lagerwall)  [Orabug: 23055234]
- xen/events: Mask a moving irq (Boris Ostrovsky)  [Orabug: 23055234]
- xen/pciback: Save the number of MSI-X entries to be copied later. 
(Dongli Zhang)  [Orabug: 23202410]
- xen/pciback: Save xen_pci_op commands before processing it (Dongli 
Zhang)  [Orabug: 23202410]
- xen-blkback: read from indirect descriptors only once (Dongli Zhang) 
[Orabug: 23202410]
- xen-blkback: only read request operation from shared ring once (Dongli 
Zhang)  [Orabug: 23202410]
- xen-netback: use RING_COPY_REQUEST() throughout (Dongli Zhang) 
[Orabug: 23202410]
- xen-netback: don't use last request to determine minimum Tx credit 
(Dongli Zhang)  [Orabug: 23202410]
- xen: Add RING_COPY_REQUEST() (Dongli Zhang)  [Orabug: 23202410]
- IB/security: Restrict use of the write() interface (Jason Gunthorpe) 
[Orabug: 23283925]  {CVE-2016-4565}




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