[Ksplice-Fedora-27-updates] New Ksplice updates for Fedora 27 (FEDORA-2017-b0c1f44130)

[Oracle Ksplice]

Synopsis: FEDORA-2017-b0c1f44130 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2017-1000405

Systems running Fedora 27 can now use Ksplice to patch against the
latest Fedora kernel update, FEDORA-2017-b0c1f44130.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack running Fedora 27
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.