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Oracle Linux 5 ELSA-2013-1166-1 Critical: Kernel Security Fix

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Calendar Grey August 22, 2013
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Oracle Linux 5 patches feature a critical kernel security notice that tackles various issues and vulnerabilities. Discover further details.
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 5 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

kernel [2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5] - [oprofile] x86, mm: Add __get_user_pages_fast() [orabug 14277030] - [oprofile] export __get_user_pages_fast() function [orabug 14277030] - [oprofile] oprofile, x86: Fix nmi-unsafe callgraph support [orabug 14277030] - [oprofile] oprofile: use KM_NMI slot for kmap_atomic [orabug 14277030] - [oprofile] oprofile: i386 add get_user_pages_fast support [orabug 14277030] - [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 printk's when doing I/O to a dead device (John...

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SRPMs

https://oss.oracle.com:443/ol5/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.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-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.src.rpm https://oss.oracle.com:443/el5/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.src.rpm

x86_64

kernel-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm ia64: kernel-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm x86_64: oracleasm-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5....

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