[El-errata] ELSA-2018-4300 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2018-4300

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2018-4300.html

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

x86_64:
kernel-uek-firmware-3.8.13-118.28.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-3.8.13-118.28.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-3.8.13-118.28.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-3.8.13-118.28.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-3.8.13-118.28.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-3.8.13-118.28.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.28.1.el6uek-0.4.5-3.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-3.8.13-118.28.1.el6uek.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.28.1.el6uek-0.4.5-3.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:

kernel-uek
[3.8.13-118.28.1.el6uek]
- udf: Check component length before reading it (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 
21193696] {CVE-2014-9728}
- udf: Verify i_size when loading inode (Shan Hai) [Orabug: 21193696] 
{CVE-2014-9728}
- intel_pstate: Fix overflow in busy_scaled due to long delay (mridula 
shastry) [Orabug: 28005134] - scsi: libsas: defer ata device eh commands 
to libata (Jason Yan) [Orabug: 28459689] {CVE-2018-10021}
- nfsd: silence sparse warning about accessing credentials (Jeff Layton) 
[Orabug: 28824742] {CVE-2017-13168}
- scsi: sg: mitigate read/write abuse (Jann Horn) [Orabug: 28824742] 
{CVE-2017-13168}
- scsi: sg: allocate with __GFP_ZERO in sg_build_indirect() (Alexander 
Potapenko) [Orabug: 28892683] {CVE-2018-1000204}
- ALSA: rawmidi: Change resized buffers atomically (Takashi Iwai) 
[Orabug: 28898650] {CVE-2018-10902}
- KVM: MTRR: remove MSR 0x2f8 (Andy Honig) [Orabug: 28901657] 
{CVE-2016-3713} {CVE-2016-3713}
- cdrom: fix improper type cast, which can leat to information leak. 
(Young_X) [Orabug: 28929777] {CVE-2018-16658} {CVE-2018-10940} 
{CVE-2018-18710}
- floppy: Do not copy a kernel pointer to user memory in FDGETPRM ioctl 
(Andy Whitcroft) {CVE-2018-7755} {CVE-2018-7755}
- crypto: salsa20 - fix blkcipher_walk API usage (Eric Biggers) [Orabug: 
28976585] {CVE-2017-17805}
- crypto: hmac - require that the underlying hash algorithm is unkeyed 
(Eric Biggers) [Orabug: 28976654] {CVE-2017-17806}