[Ksplice-Fedora-26-updates] New Ksplice updates for Fedora 26 (FEDORA-2017-9ea11e444d)
Oracle Ksplice
ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com
Thu Dec 7 01:57:32 PST 2017
Synopsis: FEDORA-2017-9ea11e444d can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2017-1000405
Systems running Fedora 26 can now use Ksplice to patch against the
latest Fedora kernel update, FEDORA-2017-9ea11e444d.
INSTALLING THE UPDATES
We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack running Fedora 26
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-2017-1000405: Privilege escalation when writing into a Transparent Huge Page.
A logic error in internal Transparent Huge Page handling of the kernel
could let an attacker overwrite read-only data and escalate privileges.
SUPPORT
Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com.
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