[El-errata] ELSA-2018-4208 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2018-4208

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2018-4208.html

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

x86_64:
kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12-124.18.9.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-124.18.9.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.18.9.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12-124.18.9.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12-124.18.9.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12-124.18.9.el6uek.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.18.9.el6uek.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[4.1.12-124.18.9.el6uek]
- rebuild bumping release

[4.1.12-124.18.8.el6uek]
- Cipso: cipso_v4_optptr enter infinite loop (yujuan.qi)  [Orabug: 
28563992]  {CVE-2018-10938}
- Btrfs: fix list_add corruption and soft lockups in fsync (Liu Bo) 
[Orabug: 28119834]
- x86/paravirt: Fix spectre-v2 mitigations for paravirt guests (Peter 
Zijlstra)  [Orabug: 28474643] {CVE-2018-15594}
- sym53c8xx: fix NULL pointer dereference panic in sym_int_sir() in 
sym_hipd.c (George Kennedy)  [Orabug: 28481893]
- md/raid1: Avoid raid1 resync getting stuck (Jes Sorensen)  [Orabug: 
28529228]
- x86/spectrev2: Don't set mode to SPECTRE_V2_NONE when retpoline is 
available. (Boris Ostrovsky)  [Orabug: 28540376]

[4.1.12-124.18.7.el6uek]
- ext4: avoid deadlock when expanding inode size (Jan Kara)  [Orabug: 
25718971]
- ext4: properly align shifted xattrs when expanding inodes (Jan Kara) 
[Orabug: 25718971]
- ext4: fix xattr shifting when expanding inodes part 2 (Jan Kara) 
[Orabug: 25718971]
- ext4: fix xattr shifting when expanding inodes (Jan Kara)  [Orabug: 
25718971]
- uek-rpm: Enable perf stripped binary (Victor Erminpour)  [Orabug: 
27801171]
- nfsd: give out fewer session slots as limit approaches (J. Bruce 
Fields)  [Orabug: 28023821]
- nfsd: increase DRC cache limit (J. Bruce Fields)  [Orabug: 28023821]
- uek-rpm: config-debug: Turn off torture testing by default (Knut 
Omang)  [Orabug: 28261886]
- ipmi: Remove smi_msg from waiting_rcv_msgs list before 
handle_one_recv_msg() (Junichi Nomura)
- x86/mce/AMD: Give a name to MCA bank 3 when accessed with legacy MSRs 
(Yazen Ghannam)  [Orabug: 28416303]
- Fix up non-directory creation in SGID directories (Linus Torvalds) 
[Orabug: 28459477]  {CVE-2018-13405}
- scsi: libsas: defer ata device eh commands to libata (Jason Yan) 
[Orabug: 28459685]  {CVE-2018-10021}
- PCI: Allocate ATS struct during enumeration (Bjorn Helgaas)  [Orabug: 
28460092]