[Ksplice][CloudLinux 5 Updates] New updates available via Ksplice (2.6.18-502.el5.lve0.8.85)
Oracle Ksplice
ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com
Tue Jun 16 04:29:08 PDT 2015
Synopsis: 2.6.18-502.el5.lve0.8.85 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2015-1805
Systems running CloudLinux 5 can now use Ksplice to patch against the
latest CloudLinux 5 kernel update, 2.6.18-502.el5.lve0.8.85.
INSTALLING THE UPDATES
We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack on CloudLinux 5 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-2015-1805: Memory corruption in handling of userspace pipe I/O vector.
Pipe I/O vector handling functions didn't handle failure of atomic accesses
correctly. This would allow a local unprivileged user to crash the system.
SUPPORT
Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com.
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