[Ksplice][RHEL6-Updates] New updates available via Ksplice (RHSA-2014:0159-1)
Oracle Ksplice
ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com
Wed Feb 12 06:24:47 PST 2014
Synopsis: RHSA-2014:0159-1 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2013-2929 CVE-2013-7263 CVE-2013-7265
Systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 can now use Ksplice to
patch against the latest Red Hat Security Advisory, RHSA-2014:0159-1.
INSTALLING THE UPDATES
We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack on RHEL 6 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-2013-2929: Incorrect permissions check in ptrace with dropped privileges.
The ptrace subsystem incorrectly checked the state of the fs.suid_dumpable
sysctl allowing a user to ptrace attach to a process if it had dropped
privileges to that user.
* CVE-2013-7263, CVE-2013-7265: Information leak in IPv4, IPv6 and PhoNet socket recvmsg.
The IPv4, IPv6 and PhoNet recvmsg(2) ioctls do not initialise the length a network
address causing the contents of kernel memory to be disclosed to userspace under
certain circumstances.
SUPPORT
Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com.
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