[Ksplice][Virtuozzo 4 Updates] New updates available via Ksplice (2.6.18-406.el5.028stab119.1)

[Oracle Ksplice]

Synopsis: 2.6.18-406.el5.028stab119.1 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2015-1805

Systems running Virtuozzo 4 or the OpenVZ RHEL 5 kernel can now use
Ksplice to patch against the latest Parallels Virtuozzo Containers
kernel security update, 2.6.18-406.el5.028stab119.1.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack on Virtuozzo 4 or
OpenVZ on RHEL 5 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-2015-1805: Memory corruption in handling of userspace pipe I/O vector.

Pipe I/O vector handling functions didn't handle failure of atomic accesses
correctly. This would allow a local unprivileged user to crash the system.

SUPPORT

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