[El-errata] ELSA-2017-1372 Moderate: Oracle Linux 6 kernel security and bug fix update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Tue May 30 17:56:17 PDT 2017


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2017-1372

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-1372.html

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

i386:
kernel-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.i686.rpm
perf-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.i686.rpm
python-perf-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
perf-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.OL6]
- Update genkey [bug 25599697]

[2.6.32-696.3.1.el6]
- [netdrv] be2net: Fix endian issue in logical link config command (Ivan 
Vecera) [1442979 1436527]
- [scsi] lpfc: update for rhel6 11.0.0.6 (Maurizio Lombardi) [1439636 
1429881]
- [scsi] lpfc: The lpfc driver does not issue RFF_ID and RFT_ID in the 
correct sequence (Maurizio Lombardi) [1439636 1429881]
- [x86] vmalloc_sync: avoid syncing vmalloc area on crashing cpu 
(Pingfan Liu) [1443499 1146727]
- [kernel] audit: plug cred memory leak in audit_filter_rules (Richard 
Guy Briggs) [1443234 1434560]
- [net] tcp: avoid infinite loop in tcp_splice_read() (Davide Caratti) 
[1430577 1430578] {CVE-2017-6214}

[2.6.32-696.2.1.el6]
- [sched] fair: Rework throttle_count sync (Jiri Olsa) [1436241 1250762]
- [sched] fair: Reorder cgroup creation code (Jiri Olsa) [1436241 1250762]
- [sched] fair: Initialize throttle_count for new task-groups lazily 
(Jiri Olsa) [1436241 1250762]
- [sched] fair: Do not announce throttled next buddy in 
dequeue_task_fair() (Jiri Olsa) [1436241 1250762]





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