ELSA-2016-3587

ELSA-2016-3587 - kernel-uek security update

Type:	SECURITY
Severity:	IMPORTANT
Release Date:	2016-07-29

Description

kernel-uek
[4.1.12-37.6.1]
- vfs: rename: check backing inode being equal (Miklos Szeredi) [Orabug: 24010060] {CVE-2016-6198} {CVE-2016-6197}
- vfs: add vfs_select_inode() helper (Miklos Szeredi) [Orabug: 24010060] {CVE-2016-6198} {CVE-2016-6197}
- ovl: verify upper dentry before unlink and rename (Miklos Szeredi) [Orabug: 24010060] {CVE-2016-6198} {CVE-2016-6197}
- ovl: fix getcwd() failure after unsuccessful rmdir (Rui Wang) [Orabug: 24010060] {CVE-2016-6198} {CVE-2016-6197}
- xen: use same main loop for counting and remapping pages (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 24012238]
- Revert 'ocfs2: bump up o2cb network protocol version' (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug: 23710417]
- atl2: Disable unimplemented scatter/gather feature (Ben Hutchings) [Orabug: 23704078] {CVE-2016-2117}
- Revert 'perf tools: Bump default sample freq to 4 kHz' (ashok.vairavan) [Orabug: 23634802]
- block: Initialize max_dev_sectors to 0 (Keith Busch) [Orabug: 23333444]
- sd: Fix rw_max for devices that report an optimal xfer size (Martin K. Petersen) [Orabug: 23333444]
- sd: Fix excessive capacity printing on devices with blocks bigger than 512 bytes (Martin K. Petersen) [Orabug: 23333444]
- sd: Optimal I/O size is in bytes, not sectors (Martin K. Petersen) [Orabug: 23333444]
- sd: Reject optimal transfer length smaller than page size (Martin K. Petersen) [Orabug: 23333444]
- Fix kabi issue for upstream commit ca369d51 (Joe Jin) [Orabug: 23333444]
- block/sd: Fix device-imposed transfer length limits (Joe Jin) [Orabug: 23333444]

Related CVEs

CVE-2016-6197

CVE-2016-2117

CVE-2016-6198

Updated Packages

Release/Architecture	Filename	MD5sum	Superseded By Advisory
Oracle Linux 6 (x86_64)	dtrace-modules-4.1.12-37.6.1.el6uek-0.5.2-1.el6.src.rpm	842a8a214b845f326e4c9a4391f5acc3	-
	kernel-uek-4.1.12-37.6.1.el6uek.src.rpm	544d2dd434a856cba19f98d9245c1f63	ELSA-2021-9215
	dtrace-modules-4.1.12-37.6.1.el6uek-0.5.2-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	03bb098d5b4d4a4e8b7319cfa84b3c7a	-
	kernel-uek-4.1.12-37.6.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm	a1b5b194fa722dbaf0274dcd4925ecec	ELSA-2021-9215
	kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12-37.6.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm	8084335b25e5c9749ccac2ee6bbb6c45	ELSA-2021-9215
	kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12-37.6.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm	172ac6824242314a8fd9d92cf0ee18d7	ELSA-2021-9215
	kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12-37.6.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm	1da9d5177f799aa6109ea5c0ec4bee57	ELSA-2021-9215
	kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12-37.6.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm	499c0d4f53ff777c838b36a07889ecbd	ELSA-2021-9215
	kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-37.6.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm	f88011e2ac94f70b7a4264fd1ce4b105	ELSA-2021-9215
Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64)	dtrace-modules-4.1.12-37.6.1.el7uek-0.5.2-1.el7.src.rpm	bc7b54ba6f52397c15a2db6fe40addee	-
	kernel-uek-4.1.12-37.6.1.el7uek.src.rpm	1fc46fb21c7d64d7e9a5b979e6562d2f	ELSA-2021-9220
	dtrace-modules-4.1.12-37.6.1.el7uek-0.5.2-1.el7.x86_64.rpm	bbf4e454a0dd3381ddf85138c7fdf6c7	-
	kernel-uek-4.1.12-37.6.1.el7uek.x86_64.rpm	725383f5dbcad52dbd7d880f84b8c2c3	ELSA-2021-9220
	kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12-37.6.1.el7uek.x86_64.rpm	a2f5645326b17985536a948264a2189b	ELSA-2021-9220
	kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12-37.6.1.el7uek.x86_64.rpm	1ff1326ac18f5be1163f9817b92c7d93	ELSA-2021-9220
	kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12-37.6.1.el7uek.x86_64.rpm	0537307e6e7b4cf958c931af88a43f21	ELSA-2021-9220
	kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12-37.6.1.el7uek.noarch.rpm	6a453d34e3078e27562738c0ea4d312c	ELSA-2021-9220
	kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-37.6.1.el7uek.noarch.rpm	5d7b53ad1d42ff17395dc9db9ca78683	ELSA-2021-9215

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