[El-errata] ELSA-2017-3535 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2017-3535

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-3535.html

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

i386:
kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.294.6.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-400.294.6.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-400.294.6.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-400.294.6.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-400.294.6.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-400.294.6.el6uek.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-400.294.6.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-400.294.6.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.294.6.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-400.294.6.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-400.294.6.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-400.294.6.el6uek.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.294.6.el6uek.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.6.39-400.294.6.el6uek]
- RHEL: complement upstream workaround for CVE-2016-10142. (Quentin 
Casasnovas)  [Orabug: 25765786]  {CVE-2016-10142} {CVE-2016-10142}

[2.6.39-400.294.5.el6uek]
- net: ping: check minimum size on ICMP header length (Kees Cook) 
[Orabug: 25766914]  {CVE-2016-8399}
- ipv6: stop sending PTB packets for MTU < 1280 (Hagen Paul Pfeifer) 
[Orabug: 25765786]  {CVE-2016-10142}
- sg_write()/bsg_write() is not fit to be called under KERNEL_DS (Al 
Viro)  [Orabug: 25765448]  {CVE-2016-10088}
- scsi: sg: check length passed to SG_NEXT_CMD_LEN (peter chang) 
[Orabug: 25752011]  {CVE-2017-7187}

[2.6.39-400.294.4.el6uek]
- tty: n_hdlc: get rid of racy n_hdlc.tbuf (Alexander Popov)  [Orabug: 
25696689]  {CVE-2017-2636}
- TTY: n_hdlc, fix lockdep false positive (Jiri Slaby)  [Orabug: 
25696689]  {CVE-2017-2636}
- drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c: replace kmalloc/memset by kzalloc (Fabian 
Frederick)  [Orabug: 25696689]  {CVE-2017-2636}
- list: introduce list_first_entry_or_null (Jiri Pirko)  [Orabug: 
25696689]  {CVE-2017-2636}
- firewire: net: guard against rx buffer overflows (Stefan Richter) 
[Orabug: 25451538]  {CVE-2016-8633}
- x86/mm/32: Enable full randomization on i386 and X86_32 (Hector 
Marco-Gisbert)  [Orabug: 25463929]  {CVE-2016-3672}
- x86 get_unmapped_area: Access mmap_legacy_base through mm_struct 
member (Radu Caragea)  [Orabug: 25463929]  {CVE-2016-3672}
- sg_start_req(): make sure that there's not too many elements in iovec 
(Al Viro)  [Orabug: 25490377]  {CVE-2015-5707}
- tcp: take care of truncations done by sk_filter() (Eric Dumazet) 
[Orabug: 25507232]  {CVE-2016-8645}
- rose: limit sk_filter trim to payload (Willem de Bruijn)  [Orabug: 
25507232]  {CVE-2016-8645}
- scsi: arcmsr: Buffer overflow in arcmsr_iop_message_xfer() (Dan 
Carpenter)  [Orabug: 25507330]  {CVE-2016-7425}
- x86: bpf_jit: fix compilation of large bpf programs (Alexei 
Starovoitov)  [Orabug: 25507375]  {CVE-2015-4700}
- net: fix a kernel infoleak in x25 module (Kangjie Lu)  [Orabug: 
25512417]  {CVE-2016-4580}
- USB: digi_acceleport: do sanity checking for the number of ports 
(Oliver Neukum)  [Orabug: 25512472]  {CVE-2016-3140}
- net/llc: avoid BUG_ON() in skb_orphan() (Eric Dumazet)  [Orabug: 
25682437]  {CVE-2017-6345}