[El-errata] New updates available via Ksplice (ELSA-2016-3623)

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Synopsis: ELSA-2016-3623 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2016-3134 CVE-2016-5829

Users with Oracle Linux Premier Support can now use Ksplice to patch
against the latest Oracle Linux Security Advisory, ELSA-2016-3623.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack on EL 6 install these
updates.

On systems that have "autoinstall = yes" in /etc/uptrack/uptrack.conf,
these updates will be installed automatically and you do not need to
take any action.

Alternatively, you can install these updates by running:

# /usr/sbin/uptrack-upgrade -y


DESCRIPTION

* Crash in InfiniBand Mellanox ConnectX HCA driver Shared Receive Queue free.

The InfiniBand Mellanox ConnectX HCA driver used the incorrect free type
when releasing a shared receive queue causing a crash or memory leak.


* CVE-2016-3134: Privilege escalation in the Netfilter driver.

Incomplete input validation when processing Netfilter xtables entries could
lead to out of bounds memory read and write.  An unprivileged user inside a
container could use this flaw to cause a denial-of-service or elevate
privileges


* Crash due to watchdog sample interval mismatch.

The watchdog_thresh sysctl did not fully update the logic for the
watchdog triggering and in some circumstances the watchdog could assert
incorrectly, causing a panic.


* Hang in OCFS2 due to incorrect quota check.

Incorrect initialisation of quota information can cause a hang
on OCFS2 filesystems.


* Return non-zero block length for really small files on ocfs2.

Tools like tar and rsync assume a file has no data if the block
length is 0 and will skip reading them.


* CVE-2016-5829: Memory corruption in unknown USB HID devices.

The USB HID driver does not validate USB data when an unknown HID device
is encountered which can allow a malicious USB device to trigger kernel
memory corruption and gain code execution.


* Use-after-free in ocfs2 driver during file write.

Incorrect reference counting in the ocfs2 driver if an error occurs
during file write can lead to a kernel crash.

SUPPORT

Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com.