[Ksplice][RHEL 5 Updates] New updates available via Ksplice (RHSA-2014:1143)

[Oracle Ksplice]

Synopsis: RHSA-2014:1143 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2014-3917

Systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 can now use Ksplice to
patch against the latest Red Hat Security Advisory, RHSA-2014:1143.

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-2014-3917: Denial-of-service and information leak in audit syscall subsystem.

Linux kernel built with the system-call auditing support is vulnerable to a
kernel crash or information disclosure flaw caused by out of bounds memory
access.  When system call audit rules are present on a system, an
unprivileged user could use this flaw to leak kernel memory or cause a
denial-of-service.

SUPPORT

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