[Ksplice][RHEL 5 Updates] New updates available via Ksplice (RHSA-2014:0740-1)

[Oracle Ksplice]

Synopsis: RHSA-2014:0740-1 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2013-7339 CVE-2014-1737 CVE-2014-1738

Systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 can now use Ksplice to
patch against the latest Red Hat Security Advisory, RHSA-2014:0740-1.

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-2014-1737, CVE-2014-1738: Local privilege escalation in floppy ioctl.

The floppy driver would leak internal memory addresses to userspace,
and would allow unprivileged userspace code to overwrite those
addresses, allowing for a local privilege escalation and gaining
of root.


* CVE-2013-7339: NULL pointer dereference in RDS socket binding.

A missing pointer validation can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and kernel
panic when binding an RDS socket.

SUPPORT

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