[Ksplice][RHEL6-Updates] New Ksplice updates for RHEL 6 (RHSA-2019:2863)
Oracle Ksplice
ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com
Tue Sep 24 07:40:00 PDT 2019
Synopsis: RHSA-2019:2863 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2019-14835
Systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 can now use Ksplice to
patch against the latest Red Hat Security Advisory, RHSA-2019:2863.
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-2019-14835: Privilege escalation during live migration of guest.
A failure to check for guest creating a zero length queue in the vhost driver
can lead to a buffer overflow in the host kernel. A guest virtual machine
could use this flaw to crash the host or potentially escalate privileges when
the virtual machine is live migrated.
SUPPORT
Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com.
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