[Ksplice][RHEL6-Updates] New Ksplice updates for RHEL 6 (RHSA-2020:0790)

[Oracle Ksplice]

Synopsis: RHSA-2020:0790 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2019-17055 CVE-2019-17133

Systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 can now use Ksplice to
patch against the latest Red Hat Security Advisory, RHSA-2020:0790.

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-2019-17055: Permission bypass when creating a Modular ISDN socket.

A missing check on user capabilities when creating a Modular ISDN socket
could lead to a permission bypass.


* CVE-2019-17133: Denial-of-service in WiFI SIOCGIWESSID ioctl().

Missing bounds checks when copying an SSID in the SIOCGIWESSID ioctl()
for an 802.11 WiFi device could result in a buffer overflow and kernel
crash.

SUPPORT

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