[Ksplice][Ubuntu-14.04-Updates] New Ksplice updates for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty (3.13.0-106.153)

[Oracle Ksplice]

Synopsis: 3.13.0-106.153 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2016-6213 CVE-2016-7916

Systems running Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty can now use Ksplice to patch
against the latest Ubuntu kernel update, 3.13.0-106.153.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack running Ubuntu 14.04
Trusty 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-2016-7916: Information leak in 'environ' procfs file.

A race condition when forking a process can allow another process to
access the 'environ' file before it is initialized which can leak the
contents of kernel memory.


* CVE-2016-6213: Denial-of-service when bind mounting filesystems.

A missing limit could cause an overflow of the mount table. A user with
mount permissions could cause a denial-of-service by bind mounting many
filesystems and overflowing the mount table.

SUPPORT

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