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ELSA-2012-1540-1

ELSA-2012-1540-1 - kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type:SECURITY
Severity:IMPORTANT
Release Date:2012-12-05

Description


kernel
[2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5]
- [kernel] Initialize the local uninitialized variable stats. [orabug 14051367]
- [fs] JBD:make jbd support 512B blocks correctly for ocfs2. [orabug 13477763]
- [x86 ] fix fpu context corrupt when preempt in signal context [orabug 14038272]
- [mm] fix hugetlb page leak (Dave McCracken) [orabug 12375075]
- fix ia64 build error due to add-support-above-32-vcpus.patch(Zhenzhong Duan)
- [x86] use dynamic vcpu_info remap to support more than 32 vcpus (Zhenzhong Duan)
- [x86] Fix lvt0 reset when hvm boot up with noapic param
- [scsi] remove printks when doing I/O to a dead device (John Sobecki, Chris Mason)
[orabug 12342275]
- [char] ipmi: Fix IPMI errors due to timing problems (Joe Jin) [orabug 12561346]
- [scsi] Fix race when removing SCSI devices (Joe Jin) [orabug 12404566]
- [net] net: Redo the broken redhat netconsole over bonding (Tina Yang) [orabug 12740042]
- [fs] nfs: Fix __put_nfs_open_context() NULL pointer panic (Joe Jin) [orabug 12687646]
- [scsi] fix scsi hotplug and rescan race [orabug 10260172]
- fix filp_close() race (Joe Jin) [orabug 10335998]
- make xenkbd.abs_pointer=1 by default [orabug 67188919]
- [xen] check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change
(Chuck Anderson) [orabug 7556514]
- [net] Enable entropy for bnx2,bnx2x,e1000e,igb,ixgb,ixgbe,ixgbevf (John Sobecki)
[orabug 10315433]
- [NET] Add xen pv netconsole support (Tina Yang) [orabug 6993043] [bz 7258]
- [mm] Patch shrink_zone to yield during severe mempressure events, avoiding
hangs and evictions (John Sobecki,Chris Mason) [orabug 6086839]
- [mm] Enhance shrink_zone patch allow full swap utilization, and also be
NUMA-aware (John Sobecki,Chris Mason,Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 9245919]
- fix aacraid not to reset during kexec (Joe Jin) [orabug 8516042]
- [rds] Patch rds to 1.4.2-20 (Andy Grover) [orabug 9471572, 9344105]
RDS: Fix BUG_ONs to not fire when in a tasklet
ipoib: Fix lockup of the tx queue
RDS: Do not call set_page_dirty() with irqs off (Sherman Pun)
RDS: Properly unmap when getting a remote access error (Tina Yang)
RDS: Fix locking in rds_send_drop_to()
- [xen] PVHVM guest with PoD crashes under memory pressure (Chuck Anderson)
[orabug 9107465]
- [xen] PV guest with FC HBA hangs during shutdown (Chuck Anderson)
[orabug 9764220]
- Support 256GB+ memory for pv guest (Mukesh Rathor) [orabug 9450615]
- fix overcommit memory to use percpu_counter for el5 (KOSAKI Motohiro,
Guru Anbalagane) [orabug 6124033]
- [ipmi] make configurable timeouts for kcs of ipmi [orabug 9752208]
- [ib] fix memory corruption (Andy Grover) [orabug 9972346]

[2.6.18-308.24.1.el5]
- Revert: [scsi] sg: fix races during device removal (Ewan Milne) [868950 861004]

[2.6.18-308.23.1.el5]
- [net] bnx2x: Add remote-fault link detection (Alexander Gordeev) [870120 796905]
- [net] bnx2x: Cosmetic changes (Alexander Gordeev) [870120 796905]
- [net] rds-ping cause kernel panic (Alexander Gordeev) [822755 822756] {CVE-2012-2372}
- [xen] add guest address range checks to XENMEM_exchange handlers (Igor Mammedov) [878033 878034] {CVE-2012-5513}
- [xen] x86/physmap: Prevent incorrect updates of m2p mappings (Igor Mammedov) [870148 870149] {CVE-2012-4537}
- [xen] VCPU/timer: Dos vulnerability prev overflow in calculations (Igor Mammedov) [870150 870151] {CVE-2012-4535}
- [scsi] sg: fix races during device removal (Ewan Milne) [868950 861004]

[2.6.18-308.22.1.el5]
- [net] bonding: fix link down handling in 802.3ad mode (Andy Gospodarek) [877943 782866]

[2.6.18-308.21.1.el5]
- [fs] ext4: race-cond protect for convert_unwritten_extents_endio (Lukas Czerner) [869910 869911] {CVE-2012-4508}
- [fs] ext4: serialize fallocate w/ ext4_convert_unwritten_extents (Lukas Czerner) [869910 869911] {CVE-2012-4508}
- [fs] ext4: flush the i_completed_io_list during ext4_truncate (Lukas Czerner) [869910 869911] {CVE-2012-4508}
- [net] WARN if struct ip_options was allocated directly by kmalloc (Jiri Pirko) [874973 872612]
- [net] ipv4: add RCU protection to inet->opt (Jiri Pirko) [872113 855302] {CVE-2012-3552}
- [scsi] qla2xx: Dont toggle inter bits after IRQ lines attached (Chad Dupuis) [870118 800708]


Related CVEs


CVE-2012-2372
CVE-2012-3552
CVE-2012-4508
CVE-2012-4535
CVE-2012-4537
CVE-2012-5513

Updated Packages


Release/ArchitectureFilenameMD5sumSuperseded By Advisory
Oracle Linux 5 (i386) kernel-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.src.rpm478e453b015e6154777ebc4b492d94f5ELSA-2019-4732
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.src.rpm2b39ccfcbba847aa15790a9e7b12342f-
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.src.rpm60e183c4783397daf3cbac96dbc98703-
kernel-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm7cd45e255ce39efef12d4512d1f53cbaELSA-2019-4732
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm41488d9fb35c18e877ee571dcc591399ELSA-2019-4732
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm17f02674ec76fcd4d33e4d69bb767d91ELSA-2019-4732
kernel-debug-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm85b9c7ae7ecbe9dd9ca74a0e6866efa8ELSA-2019-4732
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm88a8d32c59281fc05753dafc709dcd68ELSA-2019-4732
kernel-devel-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm0516e675504d8a05573e06fa2ef459b6ELSA-2019-4732
kernel-doc-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpmc2bc1439e299dccf56fce0b78489aef9ELSA-2019-4732
kernel-headers-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.i386.rpm669993dbc063f0e7381a3ec5d05be8a0ELSA-2019-4732
kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm332b94367e0be46c8433b97c18c65050ELSA-2019-4732
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpmdc22ef196decb53f52e29a7adf601295ELSA-2019-4732
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm64a18c6a3f886758a20e88b835c2c3b6-
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5PAE-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm3e38e97f78033274f82d213c542e4de6-
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm20ab6e835bedcebc5e33b86d71b0577e-
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm0d34c05c36fc0e16586ecef783acdffe-
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpmce11c122fa57b988a094953229963862-
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5PAE-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm99f636417bc9d74451bb54f114d01c55-
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpmf5a70ecd0c5d7035863f2617c74fb3bb-
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpme3f725623a0d881027cb15abc669eb17-
Oracle Linux 5 (ia64) kernel-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.src.rpm478e453b015e6154777ebc4b492d94f5ELSA-2019-4732
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.src.rpm2b39ccfcbba847aa15790a9e7b12342f-
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.src.rpm60e183c4783397daf3cbac96dbc98703-
kernel-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm929c3633b820b30f1db7092e18e362aeELSA-2019-4732
kernel-debug-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm9ae8abc3e66c64be97d536c8eb238e9bELSA-2019-4732
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm0a0d43e5160b79aa6535520940029088ELSA-2019-4732
kernel-devel-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm5cb58d298c04bc337fe8e52fd9664da3ELSA-2019-4732
kernel-doc-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpmc2bc1439e299dccf56fce0b78489aef9ELSA-2019-4732
kernel-headers-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm557ab4c050c5c013cd34e15f5b29b542ELSA-2019-4732
kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm0d704ed1d49918b2847e19746b51a696ELSA-2019-4732
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm424454b24a87d87898c101f8c3bd2b58ELSA-2019-4732
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.ia64.rpm5485c74dbb71786b3ef94f08c998a2b9-
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.10-1.el5.ia64.rpm507d871ce248d98ce87ff5c6fa3104a2-
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.10-1.el5.ia64.rpm8fbcaeb66e0bd760b0e89be1d7517673-
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm9f229e964a736d3ce1453de3d0f38062-
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm93c2ab37a8afe69e501c6f4946e4b63e-
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpmc8fcd1aabf249bd5708cd4dcc0114f33-
Oracle Linux 5 (x86_64) kernel-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.src.rpm478e453b015e6154777ebc4b492d94f5ELSA-2019-4732
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.src.rpm2b39ccfcbba847aa15790a9e7b12342f-
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.src.rpm60e183c4783397daf3cbac96dbc98703-
kernel-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm520dd8b71e71ca5785fcf97fe18e6d65ELSA-2019-4732
kernel-debug-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpmef08562e78d7220975ae13c37b0dff81ELSA-2019-4732
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm75fd4f57a811c5ebeb1f9114bce0e9d5ELSA-2019-4732
kernel-devel-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm12c1418ca809eb38651e80ae7d4bbd88ELSA-2019-4732
kernel-doc-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpmc2bc1439e299dccf56fce0b78489aef9ELSA-2019-4732
kernel-headers-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm73c295a8b2568241a566fedd1bcb16a0ELSA-2019-4732
kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm298ac3462954849a7833031276a2d203ELSA-2019-4732
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpmd35b2a4a38b661f778e73d0dec9ea434ELSA-2019-4732
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm21474107d92827e06f12918d32eed3fb-
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm82eac1d60ea2ed3923e5cbc02600c5c5-
ocfs2-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm41df1a97291170b47791296ae728e7e7-
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpme70cfa5561629e46f312c35a5ff9a4bf-
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm645d77e1c7ccad314730086fc069221c-
oracleasm-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm93e33a59bd84e9043ce2542c84900e2a-



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