[Ksplice-Fedora-21-updates] New updates available via Ksplice (FEDORA-2014-16448)

[Oracle Ksplice]

Synopsis: FEDORA-2014-16448 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2014-9090

Systems running Fedora 21 can now use Ksplice to patch against the
latest Fedora kernel update, FEDORA-2014-16448.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack on Fedora 21 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-2014-9090: Denial-of-service in double-fault handling on bad stack segment.

A flaw when handling double faults associated with the stack segment
register could lead to a kernel panic.  A local, unprivileged user could
use this flaw via the modify_ldt() system call to cause a
denial-of-service.


SUPPORT

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