[El-errata] ELSA-2019-4576 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2019-4576

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2019-4576.html

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

x86_64:
kernel-uek-firmware-3.8.13-118.31.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-3.8.13-118.31.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-3.8.13-118.31.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-3.8.13-118.31.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-3.8.13-118.31.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-3.8.13-118.31.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.31.1.el6uek-0.4.5-3.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-3.8.13-118.31.1.el6uek.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.31.1.el6uek-0.4.5-3.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:

kernel-uek
[3.8.13-118.31.1.el6uek]
- alarmtimer: Prevent overflow for relative nanosleep (Thomas Gleixner) 
[Orabug: 29269167] {CVE-2018-13053}
- KEYS: Don't permit request_key() to construct a new keyring (David 
Howells) [Orabug: 29304552] {CVE-2017-17807}
- KEYS: add missing permission check for request_key() destination (Eric 
Biggers) [Orabug: 29304552] {CVE-2017-17807}
- ext4: only look at the bg_flags field if it is valid (Theodore Ts'o) 
[Orabug: 29409425] {CVE-2018-10876} {CVE-2018-10876}
- net: Set sk_prot_creator when cloning sockets to the right proto 
(Christoph Paasch) [Orabug: 29422740] {CVE-2018-9568}
- ext4: make sure bitmaps and the inode table don't overlap with bg 
descriptors (Theodore Ts'o) [Orabug: 29428608] {CVE-2018-10878}
- ext4: always check block group bounds in ext4_init_block_bitmap() 
(Theodore Ts'o) [Orabug: 29428608] {CVE-2018-10878}