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Oracle Linux 6 ELSA-2013-1173: Important Kernel Security Update

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Calendar Grey August 27, 2013
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Oracle Linux 6 undergoes kernel enhancements in Security Bulletin ELSA-2013-1173 to mitigate significant vulnerabilities and risks.
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

[2.6.32-358.18.1.el6] - [x86] perf/x86: Fix offcore_rsp valid mask for SNB/IVB (Nikola Pajkovsky) [971314 971315] {CVE-2013-2146} - [net] br: fix schedule while atomic issue in br_features_recompute() (Jiri Pirko) [990464 980876] - [scsi] isci: Fix a race condition in the SSP task management path (David Milburn) [990470 978609] - [bluetooth] L2CAP - Fix info leak via getsockname() (Jacob Tanenbaum) [922417 922418] {CVE-2012-6544} - [bluetooth] HCI - Fix info leak in getsockopt() (Jacob Tanenbaum) [922417 922418] {CVE-2012-6544} - [net] tuntap: initialize vlan_features (Vlad Yasevich) [984524 951458] - [net] af_key: initialize satype in key_notify_policy_flush() (Thomas Graf) [981225 981227] {CVE-2013-2237} - [usb] uhci: fix for suspend of virtual HP controller (Gopal) [982697 960026] - [usb] uhci: Remove PCI dependencies from uhci-hub (Gopal) [982697 960026] - [netdrv] bnx2x: Change MDIO clock settings (Michal Schmidt) [982116 901747] - [scsi] st: Take additional queue ref ...

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SRPMs

https://oss.oracle.com:443/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.src.rpm The following packages were rebuilt to be in sync with the updated kernel version (no changes other than updating the version number):

x86_64

kernel-2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.noarch.rpm kernel-firmware-2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64.rpm perf-2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64.rpm python-perf-2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64.rpm

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