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High ELSA-2016-3501 2 CVEs

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

Published Jan 8, 2016 · Updated Jan 8, 2016

Summary

kernel-uek
[3.8.13-118.2.4]
- KEYS: Don't permit request_key() to construct a new keyring (David Howells) [Orabug: 22373442] {CVE-2015-7872}

[3.8.13-118.2.3]
- dcache: Handle escaped paths in prepend_path (Eric W. Biederman) [Orabug: 22373283]
- vfs: Test for and handle paths that are unreachable from their mnt_root (Eric W. Biederman) [Orabug: 22249875]
- KEYS: Fix crash when attempt to garbage collect an uninstantiated keyring (David Howells) [Orabug: 22373442] {CVE-2015-7872}
- KEYS: Fix race between key destruction and finding a keyring by name (David Howells) [Orabug: 22373442]

Fixed packages 8

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 7 dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.2.4.el6uek 0:0.4.5-3.el6
Oracle Linux · 7 dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.2.4.el7uek 0:0.4.5-3.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek 0:3.8.13-118.2.4.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-debug 0:3.8.13-118.2.4.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-debug-devel 0:3.8.13-118.2.4.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-devel 0:3.8.13-118.2.4.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-doc 0:3.8.13-118.2.4.el7uek
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-firmware 0:3.8.13-118.2.4.el7uek

Vulnerabilities 2