[Ksplice][RHEL6-Updates] New Ksplice updates for RHEL 6 (ELSA-2019-3878)

[Oracle Ksplice]

Synopsis: ELSA-2019-3878 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2019-0155

Systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 can now use Ksplice to
patch against the latest Red Hat kernel update, ELSA-2019-3878.
More information about this errata can be found at
https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2019-3878.html

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

* Improved fix for CVE-2019-0155: Privilege escalation in Intel i915 graphics driver.

Missing zeroing of data used to disallow rogue i915 instructions could
make i915 driver vulnerable to CVE-2019-0155 on 64 bits systems.

SUPPORT

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