| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'kernel, ocfs2-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5, oracleasm-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5' package(s) announced via the ELSA-2012-1540-1 advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
kernel
[2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5]
- [kernel] Initialize the local uninitialized variable stats. [orabug 14051367]
- [fs] JBD:make jbd support 512B blocks correctly for ocfs2. [orabug 13477763]
- [x86 ] fix fpu context corrupt when preempt in signal context [orabug 14038272]
- [mm] fix hugetlb page leak (Dave McCracken) [orabug 12375075]
- fix ia64 build error due to add-support-above-32-vcpus.patch(Zhenzhong Duan)
- [x86] use dynamic vcpu_info remap to support more than 32 vcpus (Zhenzhong Duan)
- [x86] Fix lvt0 reset when hvm boot up with noapic param
- [scsi] remove printks when doing I/O to a dead device (John Sobecki, Chris Mason)
[orabug 12342275]
- [char] ipmi: Fix IPMI errors due to timing problems (Joe Jin) [orabug 12561346]
- [scsi] Fix race when removing SCSI devices (Joe Jin) [orabug 12404566]
- [net] net: Redo the broken redhat netconsole over bonding (Tina Yang) [orabug 12740042]
- [fs] nfs: Fix __put_nfs_open_context() NULL pointer panic (Joe Jin) [orabug 12687646]
- [scsi] fix scsi hotplug and rescan race [orabug 10260172]
- fix filp_close() race (Joe Jin) [orabug 10335998]
- make xenkbd.abs_pointer=1 by default [orabug 67188919]
- [xen] check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change
(Chuck Anderson) [orabug 7556514]
- [net] Enable entropy for bnx2,bnx2x,e1000e,igb,ixgb,ixgbe,ixgbevf (John Sobecki)
[orabug 10315433]
- [NET] Add xen pv netconsole support (Tina Yang) [orabug 6993043] [bz 7258]
- [mm] Patch shrink_zone to yield during severe mempressure events, avoiding
hangs and evictions (John Sobecki,Chris Mason) [orabug 6086839]
- [mm] Enhance shrink_zone patch allow full swap utilization, and also be
NUMA-aware (John Sobecki,Chris Mason,Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 9245919]
- fix aacraid not to reset during kexec (Joe Jin) [orabug 8516042]
- [rds] Patch rds to 1.4.2-20 (Andy Grover) [orabug 9471572, 9344105]
RDS: Fix BUG_ONs to not fire when in a tasklet
ipoib: Fix lockup of the tx queue
RDS: Do not call set_page_dirty() with irqs off (Sherman Pun)
RDS: Properly unmap when getting a remote access error (Tina Yang)
RDS: Fix locking in rds_send_drop_to()
- [xen] PVHVM guest with PoD crashes under memory pressure (Chuck Anderson)
[orabug 9107465]
- [xen] PV guest with FC HBA hangs during shutdown (Chuck Anderson)
[orabug 9764220]
- Support 256GB+ memory for pv guest (Mukesh Rathor) [orabug 9450615]
- fix overcommit memory to use percpu_counter for el5 (KOSAKI Motohiro,
Guru Anbalagane) [orabug 6124033]
- [ipmi] make configurable timeouts for kcs of ipmi [orabug 9752208]
- [ib] fix memory corruption (Andy Grover) [orabug 9972346]
[2.6.18-308.24.1.el5]
- Revert: [scsi] sg: fix races during device removal (Ewan Milne) [868950 861004]
[2.6.18-308.23.1.el5]
- [net] bnx2x: Add remote-fault link detection (Alexander Gordeev) [870120 796905]
- [net] bnx2x: Cosmetic changes (Alexander Gordeev) [870120 796905]
- [net] rds-ping cause ... [Please see the references for more information on the vulnerabilities]
Affected Software/OS:
'kernel, ocfs2-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5, oracleasm-2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5' package(s) on Oracle Linux 5.
Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).
CVSS Score:
7.1
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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