[Ksplice][RHEL 5 Updates] New updates available via Ksplice (RHSA-2013:1790)

[Oracle Ksplice]

Synopsis: RHSA-2013:1790 can now be patched using Ksplice

Systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 can now use Ksplice to
patch against the latest Red Hat Security Advisory, RHSA-2013:1790.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack on RHEL 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

The recently released RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2013:1790 contains 
a fix for CVE-2013-4355 which addresses a vulnerability in the Xen 
hypervisor which is not part of the Linux kernel.  Customers running 
Xen hosts will need to reboot to get the latest hypervisor updates.

DESCRIPTION

* Incorrect handling of SCSI scatter-gather list mapping failures.

Due to an incorrect test condition in the mpt2sas driver, the driver was
unable to catch failures to map a SCSI scatter-gather list. The test
condition has been corrected so that the mpt2sas driver now handles SCSI
scatter-gather mapping failures as expected.

SUPPORT

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