[El-errata] ELSA-2019-4577 Important: Oracle Linux 5 Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

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Tue Mar 12 07:46:08 PDT 2019


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2019-4577

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2019-4577.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 5 Extended Lifecycle Support 
(ELS) have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.307.1.el5uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-400.307.1.el5uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-400.307.1.el5uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-400.307.1.el5uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-400.307.1.el5uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-400.307.1.el5uek.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-400.307.1.el5uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-400.307.1.el5uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.307.1.el5uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-400.307.1.el5uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-400.307.1.el5uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-400.307.1.el5uek.x86_64.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.6.39-400.307.1.el5uek]
- proc: restrict kernel stack dumps to root (John Donnelly) [Orabug: 
29114880] {CVE-2018-17972}
- alarmtimer: Prevent overflow for relative nanosleep (Thomas Gleixner) 
[Orabug: 29269182] {CVE-2018-13053}
- ext4: only look at the bg_flags field if it is valid (Theodore Ts'o) 
[Orabug: 29409428] {CVE-2018-10876} {CVE-2018-10876}
- vfs: Add sb_rdonly(sb) to query the MS_RDONLY flag on s_flags (David 
Howells) [Orabug: 29409428] {CVE-2018-10876}
- net: Set sk_prot_creator when cloning sockets to the right proto 
(Christoph Paasch) [Orabug: 29422741] {CVE-2018-9568}






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