ELSA-2012-1366

ELSA-2012-1366 - kernel security and bug fix update

Type:	SECURITY
Severity:	IMPORTANT
Release Date:	2012-10-16

Description

[2.6.32-279.11.1.el6]
- [net] core: Fix napi_gro_frags vs netpoll path (Amerigo Wang) [857854 845347]
- [netdrv] benet: disable BH in callers of be_process_mcc() (Amerigo Wang) [857854 845347]
- [net] bonding: remove IFF_IN_NETPOLL flag (Amerigo Wang) [857854 845347]
- [mm] fix contig_page_data kABI breakage and related memory corruption (Satoru Moriya) [857012 853007]
- [net] sctp: backport sctp cache ipv6 source after route lookup (Michele Baldessari) [858284 855759]
- [net] sctp: backport support of sctp multi-homing ipv6 source address selection (Michele Baldessari) [858284 855759]
- [net] ipv6: backport RTA_PREFSRC ipv6 source route selection support (Michele Baldessari) [858285 851118]
- [netdrv] sfc: Fix maximum number of TSO segments and minimum TX queue size (Nikolay Aleksandrov) [845556 845557] {CVE-2012-3412}
- [s390] zfcp: No automatic port_rescan on events (Hendrik Brueckner) [856316 855131]
- [fs] xfs: push the AIL from memory reclaim and periodic sync (Dave Chinner) [856686 855139]

[2.6.32-279.10.1.el6]
- [mm] hugetlbfs: close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables (Rafael Aquini) [857334 856325]
- [mm] hugetlbfs: Correctly detect if page tables have just been shared (Rafael Aquini) [857334 856325]
- [kernel] sched: fix divide by zero at {thread_group,task}_times (Stanislaw Gruszka) [856703 843771]

Related CVEs

CVE-2012-3412

Updated Packages

Release/Architecture	Filename	MD5sum	Superseded By Advisory
Oracle Linux 6 (i386)	kernel-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.src.rpm	c12d32f3b5a6f2ad41dfcf840f21d27f	ELSA-2021-9212
	kernel-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686.rpm	9a7a9bd6ae70b5233f6af34fbbddcf89	ELSA-2021-9212
	kernel-debug-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686.rpm	f512f8318e135173b2e84bd332cfb5d2	ELSA-2021-9212
	kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686.rpm	6555361e73113763ef00e49f7a56b840	ELSA-2021-9212
	kernel-devel-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686.rpm	180521c1a787ac5debe68decd4c09828	ELSA-2021-9212
	kernel-doc-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.noarch.rpm	c4ee5cc8a31f07d9e1ddba8bebeb8c16	ELSA-2021-9212
	kernel-firmware-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.noarch.rpm	272580cd8de3eedbc1f199d24af0bfb8	ELSA-2021-9212
	kernel-headers-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686.rpm	f5f461fbaa14a811e2a952476378cd6f	ELSA-2021-9212
	perf-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686.rpm	8b738d048fbecc3699f46719e6209c1d	ELSA-2021-9212
	python-perf-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686.rpm	7699cd5766ee773125def318e81ea280	ELSA-2021-9212
Oracle Linux 6 (x86_64)	kernel-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.src.rpm	c12d32f3b5a6f2ad41dfcf840f21d27f	ELSA-2021-9212
	kernel-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64.rpm	e950f2f2fb4a745004a48cbbdb04a35d	ELSA-2021-9212
	kernel-debug-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64.rpm	1652a27db3978197043c27e3c490727f	ELSA-2021-9212
	kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64.rpm	9179bf9f68cbb6ea97bd7eb451fae666	ELSA-2021-9212
	kernel-devel-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64.rpm	ec0b6b07ff150e9ecb198c9eb31ca4f3	ELSA-2021-9212
	kernel-doc-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.noarch.rpm	c4ee5cc8a31f07d9e1ddba8bebeb8c16	ELSA-2021-9212
	kernel-firmware-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.noarch.rpm	272580cd8de3eedbc1f199d24af0bfb8	ELSA-2021-9212
	kernel-headers-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64.rpm	ec77f710c1fb23b159197ac982ffe46e	ELSA-2021-9212
	perf-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64.rpm	11560bb4bed6148bee16d7a3f96c2d3d	ELSA-2021-9212
	python-perf-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64.rpm	b7fc00237d4da685da2321504f33367a	ELSA-2021-9212

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