[El-errata] ELSA-2017-3509 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2017-3509

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-3509.html

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

x86_64:
kernel-uek-firmware-3.8.13-118.16.2.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-3.8.13-118.16.2.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-3.8.13-118.16.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-3.8.13-118.16.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-3.8.13-118.16.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-3.8.13-118.16.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.16.2.el6uek-0.4.5-3.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-3.8.13-118.16.2.el6uek.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.16.2.el6uek-0.4.5-3.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:

kernel-uek
[3.8.13-118.16.2.el6uek]
- net: avoid signed overflows for SO_{SND|RCV}BUFFORCE (Eric Dumazet) 
[Orabug: 25203623]  {CVE-2016-9793}

[3.8.13-118.16.1.el6uek]
- nvme: Limit command retries (Ashok Vairavan)  [Orabug: 25374794]
- tcp: fix use after free in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue() (Eric Dumazet) 
  [Orabug: 25374371]  {CVE-2016-6828}
- logging errors that get masked to EIO inside drivers/block/loop.c 
(Manjunath Patil)  [Orabug: 22505535]
- ALSA: pcm : Call kill_fasync() in stream lock (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug: 
25203963]  {CVE-2016-9794}
- packet: fix race condition in packet_set_ring (Philip Pettersson) 
[Orabug: 25217756]  {CVE-2016-8655}
- x86: kvmclock: zero initialize pvclock shared memory area (Igor 
Mammedov)  [Orabug: 25218431]
- KEYS: Fix short sprintf buffer in /proc/keys show function (David 
Howells)  [Orabug: 25306373]  {CVE-2016-7042}