[Ksplice][RHEL 5 Updates] New updates available via Ksplice (RHSA-2015:1042)

[Oracle Ksplice]

Synopsis: RHSA-2015:1042 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2015-1805

Systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 can now use Ksplice to
patch against the latest Red Hat Security Advisory, RHSA-2015:1042.

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-2015-1805: Memory corruption in handling of userspace pipe I/O vector.

Pipe I/O vector handling functions didn't handle failure of atomic accesses
correctly. This would allow a local unprivileged user to crash the system.

SUPPORT

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