[Ksplice][RHEL 5 Updates] New updates available via Ksplice (2.6.18-400.1.1.el5)

[Samson Yeung]

Synopsis: 2.6.18-400.1.1.el5 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2014-9090 CVE-2014-9322

Systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 can now use Ksplice to
patch against the latest Red Hat kernel update, 2.6.18-400.1.1.el5.

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


DESCRIPTION

* CVE-2014-9090, CVE-2014-9322: 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.