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Oracle Linux 5: ELSA-2012-1445-1 Low: Kernel Update Threat Mitigation

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2012
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Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2012-1445-1 offers key insights on critical kernel updates to address security vulnerabilities and ensure system protection
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 5 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

[2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.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] - [net] bonding: fix carrier detect when bond is down [orabug 12377284] - [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 printk's 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: Fi...

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SRPMs

https://oss.oracle.com:443/ol5/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.src.rpm The following packages were rebuilt to be in sync with the updated kernel version (no changes other than updating the version number): SRPMS: https://oss.oracle.com:443/el5/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.src.rpm https://oss.oracle.com:443/el5/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.src.rpm

x86_64

kernel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm ia64: kernel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm x86_64: oracleasm-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5....

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