[Ksplice][RHEL 5 Updates] New Ksplice updates for RHEL 5 (CVE-2016-5195)

[Jamie Iles]

Synopsis: CVE-2016-5195 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2016-5195

Systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 can now use Ksplice to
patch against the latest Red Hat kernel update, CVE-2016-5195.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack running 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

* Improved fix for CVE-2016-5195: Privilege escalation when handling private mapping copy-on-write.

The original fix for CVE-2016-5195 was incomplete when get_user_pages()
was called for multiple pages.

SUPPORT

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