[El-errata] ELSA-2017-0892 Important: Oracle Linux 6 kernel security and bug fix update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2017-0892

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-0892.html

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

i386:
kernel-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.i686.rpm
perf-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.i686.rpm
python-perf-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
perf-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.6.32-696.1.1.el6]
- [block] fix use-after-free in seq file (Denys Vlasenko) [1418548 
1418549] {CVE-2016-7910}
- [firmware] Replacing the chelsio firmware (t4,t5)fw-1.15.37.0 (Sai 
Vemuri) [1433865 1425749]
- [kernel] genirq: Avoid taking sparse_irq_lock for non-existent irqs 
(Dave Wysochanski) [1428106 1360930]
- [tty] n_hdlc: get rid of racy n_hdlc.tbuf (Herton R. Krzesinski) 
[1429917 1429918] {CVE-2017-2636}