[Ksplice][CloudLinux 5 Updates] New updates available via Ksplice (2.6.18-502.el5.lve0.8.85)

[Oracle Ksplice]

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.