[Ksplice][RHEL 5 Updates] New updates available via Ksplice (RHSA-2012:0150-3)

[Nelson Elhage]

Synopsis: RHSA-2012:0150-3 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2011-1083
Red Hat Security Advisory Severity: Important

Systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, CentOS 5, Scientific Linux
5, and CentOSPlus 5 can now use Ksplice to patch against the latest
Red Hat Security Advisory, RHSA-2012:0150-3.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack on RHEL 5, CentOS 5,
Scientific Linux 5, and CentOSPlus 5 install these updates.  You can
install these updates by running:

# /usr/sbin/uptrack-upgrade -y

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 additional action.


DESCRIPTION

* CVE-2011-1083: Algorithmic denial of service in epoll.

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Event Poll (epoll)
subsystem handled large, nested epoll structures. A local,
unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service.

SUPPORT

Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com.