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Oracle Linux 6 ELSA-2012-1426 Moderate: Kernel Security Update

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Calendar Grey November 7, 2012
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The Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2012-1426 issues updates for the kernel to rectify multiple vulnerabilities successfully.
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

[2.6.32-279.14.1.el6] - [usb] usbhid: Fix use-after-free in USBHID (James Paradis) [864827 857518] - [usb] Add kernel parameter to force io_watchdog for Intel EHCI HCD (James Paradis) [865713 846024] - [block] Fix hanging kernel threads in blk_execute_rq() (James Paradis) [865308 855984] - [mm] hugetlb: do not use vma_hugecache_offset() for vma_prio_tree_foreach (Frederic Weisbecker) [843034 843035] {CVE-2012-2133} - [mm] hugepages: fix use after free bug in "quota" handling (Frederic Weisbecker) [843034 843035] {CVE-2012-2133} - [mm] hugetlb: fix pgoff computation when unmapping page from vma (Frederic Weisbecker) [843034 843035] {CVE-2012-2133} - [mm] hugetlb: fix ENOSPC returned by handle_mm_fault() (Frederic Weisbecker) [843034 843035] {CVE-2012-2133} - [fs] gfs2: Write out dirty inode metadata in delayed deletes (Frantisek Hrbata) [859326 748827] - [usb] core: Fix device removal race condition (James Paradis) [864821 849188] - [mm] x86_32: fix SHLIB_BASE address typo (...

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SRPMs

https://oss.oracle.com:443/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.src.rpm

x86_64

kernel-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.noarch.rpm kernel-firmware-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64.rpm perf-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64.rpm python-perf-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64.rpm

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