[El-errata] New Ksplice updates for RHCK 7 (RHSA-2018-0395)
Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux
el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Thu Mar 8 05:02:31 PST 2018
Synopsis: ELSA-2018-0395 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2017-12188 CVE-2017-7518
Users with Oracle Linux Premier Support can now use Ksplice to patch
against the latest Oracle kernel update, ELSA-2018-0395.
INSTALLING THE UPDATES
We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack running RHCK 7 install
these updates.
On systems that have "autoinstall = yes" in /etc/uptrack/uptrack.conf,
these updates will be installed automatically and you do not need to
take any action.
Alternatively, you can install these updates by running:
# /usr/sbin/uptrack-upgrade -y
DESCRIPTION
* CVE-2017-7518: Privilege escalation in KVM emulation subsystem.
An implementation error in the syscall instruction emulation in KVM
leads to a kernel exception raised in userspace. A user/process inside
guest could use this flaw to potentially escalate their privileges
inside guest.
* CVE-2017-12188: Out-of-bounds memory access during KVM page table walk.
A logic error in the page table management of KVM guests can result in
an out-of-bounds memory access. A guest virtual machine could use this
flaw to crash the host or potentially execute malicious code with host
privileges.
SUPPORT
Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com.
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