[El-errata] New Ksplice updates for UEKR2 2.6.39 on OL5 and OL6 (ELSA-2018-4234)

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Synopsis: ELSA-2018-4234 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2018-14634

Users with Oracle Linux Premier Support can now use Ksplice to patch
against the latest Oracle Linux Security Advisory, ELSA-2018-4234.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack running UEKR2 2.6.39 on
OL5 and OL6 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-2018-14634: Privilege escalation in ELF executables.

An integer overflow in the argument setup for a new ELF executable could
result in attacker controlled corruption of the user stack when
executing a SUID binary.  A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw
to gain superuser privileges.

Orabug: 28710024

SUPPORT

Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com.