[El-errata] ELSA-2017-3514 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Tue Feb 7 06:49:28 PST 2017


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2017-3514

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-3514.html

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

x86_64:
kernel-uek-4.1.12-61.1.27.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12-61.1.27.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-61.1.27.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12-61.1.27.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12-61.1.27.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12-61.1.27.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
dtrace-modules-4.1.12-61.1.27.el6uek-0.5.3-2.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-4.1.12-61.1.27.el6uek.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/dtrace-modules-4.1.12-61.1.27.el6uek-0.5.3-2.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:

kernel-uek
[4.1.12-61.1.27.el6uek]
- vfio/pci: Fix integer overflows, bitmask check (Vlad Tsyrklevich) 
[Orabug: 25164094]  {CVE-2016-9083} {CVE-2016-9084}
- Don't feed anything but regular iovec's to blk_rq_map_user_iov (Linus 
Torvalds)  [Orabug: 25231931]  {CVE-2016-9576}
- kvm: x86: Check memopp before dereference (CVE-2016-8630) (Owen 
Hofmann)  [Orabug: 25417387]  {CVE-2016-8630}
- crypto: algif_hash - Only export and import on sockets with data 
(Herbert Xu)  [Orabug: 25417799]  {CVE-2016-8646}
- USB: usbfs: fix potential infoleak in devio (Kangjie Lu)  [Orabug: 
25462755]  {CVE-2016-4482}
- net: fix infoleak in llc (Kangjie Lu)  [Orabug: 25462799]  {CVE-2016-4485}

[4.1.12-61.1.26.el6uek]
- xen-netback: fix extra_info handling in xenvif_tx_err() (Paul Durrant) 
  [Orabug: 25445336]
- net: Documentation: Fix default value tcp_limit_output_bytes (Niklas 
Cassel)  [Orabug: 25458076]
- tcp: double default TSQ output bytes limit (Wei Liu)  [Orabug: 25458076]
- xenbus: fix deadlock on writes to /proc/xen/xenbus (David Vrabel) 
[Orabug: 25430143]





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