[El-errata] ELSA-2016-3559 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Tue May 17 13:59:05 PDT 2016


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2016-3559

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-3559.html

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

x86_64:
kernel-uek-4.1.12-37.3.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12-37.3.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-37.3.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12-37.3.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12-37.3.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12-37.3.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
dtrace-modules-4.1.12-37.3.1.el6uek-0.5.2-1.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-4.1.12-37.3.1.el6uek.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/dtrace-modules-4.1.12-37.3.1.el6uek-0.5.2-1.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:

kernel-uek
[4.1.12-37.3.1.el6uek]
- KEYS: Fix ASN.1 indefinite length object parsing This fixes 
CVE-2016-0758. (David Howells)  [Orabug: 23279022]  {CVE-2016-0758}
- uek-rpm: ol6: revert DRM for experimental or OL6-incompatible drivers 
(Todd Vierling)  [Orabug: 23270829]
- unix: properly account for FDs passed over unix sockets (willy 
tarreau)  [Orabug: 23262277]  {CVE-2013-4312} {CVE-2013-4312}
- sctp: Prevent soft lockup when sctp_accept() is called during a 
timeout event (Karl Heiss)  [Orabug: 23222731]  {CVE-2015-8767}




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