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Oracle Linux 6 ELSA-2011-2037 Moderate: Kernel Memory Leak and DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey December 15, 2011
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Users of Oracle Linux are advised to apply kernel updates associated with ELSA-2011-2037, as they address vulnerabilities related to memory leaks and denial of service risks.
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

* Information leak in kernel memory leak detector. In kmemleak_seq_next, failure to get the last object during list traversal leaked a pointer when it should have returned NULL. * Kernel oops after blk_cleanup_queue. The kernel function blk_cleanup_queue() could deallocate an I/O scheduler while it is still in use, causing a kernel oops. * ext3 filesystem corruption when no space is left on the device. When make_indexed_dir failed because there was no space left on the device, not all changed buffers were being marked as dirty and thus being written to disk, corrupting the directory. * Denial of service in JBD fsync transaction handling. Certain workloads involving fdatasync() and fsync() on filesystems using the JBD layer could cause denial of service (BUG assertion failure). * CVE-2011-2182: Incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1017 buffer overflow in ldm_frag_add. The patch for CVE-2011-1017 (buffer overflow in ldm_frag_add) did not handle some edge cases allowing for buffer ove...

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SRPMs

https://oss.oracle.com:443/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-2.6.32-300.3.1.el6uek.src.rpm https://oss.oracle.com:443/ol6/SRPMS-updates/ofa-2.6.32-300.3.1.el6uek-1.5.1-4.0.47.src.rpm Users with Oracle Linux Premier Support can now use Ksplice to patch against this Security Advisory. We recommend that all users of Oracle Linux 6 install these updates. Users of Ksplice Uptrack can install these updates by running : # /usr/sbin/uptrack-upgrade -y On systems that have "autoinstall = yes" in /etc/uptrack/uptrack.conf, these updates will be installed automatically and you do not need to take any additional action.

x86_64

kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.32-300.3.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm kernel-uek-doc-2.6.32-300.3.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm kernel-uek-2.6.32-300.3.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-headers-2.6.32-300.3.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-devel-2.6.32-300.3.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.32-300.3.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm kernel-uek-debug-2.6.32-300.3.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm ofa-2.6.32-300.3.1.el6uek-1.5.1-4.0.47.x86_64.rpm ofa-2.6.32-300.3.1.el6uekdebug-1.5.1-4.0.47.x86_64.rpm

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