[Ksplice][RHEL6-Updates] New Ksplice updates for RHEL 6 (RHSA-2018:2846)

[Jamie Iles]

Synopsis: RHSA-2018:2846 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2018-14634

Systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 can now use Ksplice to
patch against the latest Red Hat Security Advisory, RHSA-2018:2846.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack running 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-2018-14634: Privilege escalation in ELF executables.

An integer overflow in the argument setup for a new ELF executable could
result in attacker controlled corruption of the user stack when
executing a SUID binary.  A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw
to gain superuser privileges.

Ksplice will not be providing a zero-downtime update for CVE-2018-5391,
customers needing mitigation against this vulnerability should
reboot into the latest kernel release.

SUPPORT

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