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High ELSA-2015-3032 4 CVEs

Important: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (Oracle Linux 7)

Published Apr 23, 2015 · Updated Apr 23, 2015

Summary

kernel-uek
[3.8.13-68.1.3]
- isofs: Fix unchecked printing of ER records (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 20930551] {CVE-2014-9584}
- KEYS: close race between key lookup and freeing (Sasha Levin) [Orabug: 20930548] {CVE-2014-9529} {CVE-2014-9529}
- mm: memcg: do not allow task about to OOM kill to bypass the limit (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] {CVE-2014-8171}
- mm: memcg: do not declare OOM from __GFP_NOFAIL allocations (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] {CVE-2014-8171}
- fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the allocator (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] {CVE-2014-8171}
- mm: memcg: handle non-error OOM situations more gracefully (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] {CVE-2014-8171}
- mm: memcg: do not trap chargers with full callstack on OOM (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] {CVE-2014-8171}
- mm: memcg: rework and document OOM waiting and wakeup (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] {CVE-2014-8171}
- mm: memcg: enable memcg OOM killer only for user faults (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] {CVE-2014-8171}
- x86: finish user fault error path with fatal signal (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] {CVE-2014-8171}
- arch: mm: pass userspace fault flag to generic fault handler (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] {CVE-2014-8171}
- selinux: Permit bounded transitions under NO_NEW_PRIVS or NOSUID. (Stephen Smalley) [Orabug: 20930501] {CVE-2014-3215}

Fixed packages 8

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 7 dtrace-modules-3.8.13-68.1.3.el6uek 0:0.4.3-4.el6
Oracle Linux · 7 dtrace-modules-3.8.13-68.1.3.el7uek 0:0.4.3-4.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek 0:3.8.13-68.1.3.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-debug 0:3.8.13-68.1.3.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-debug-devel 0:3.8.13-68.1.3.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-devel 0:3.8.13-68.1.3.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-doc 0:3.8.13-68.1.3.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-firmware 0:3.8.13-68.1.3.el7uek

Vulnerabilities 4