Vulnerabilities fixed in Oracle Enterprise Linux

Vulnerabilities have been fixed in the kernel of Oracle Enterprise Linux. The vulnerabilities allow a malicious person to perform attacks that result in the following categories of damage: Denial-of-Service DoS. Access to system data Increased user privileges Oracle has released updates to fix th...

Apache Log4j CVE-2017-5645 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Description Apache Log4j is prone to remote code-execution vulnerability. Successfully exploiting this issue allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of the affected application. Failed exploits will result in denial-of-service conditions. Apache Log4j 2.0-alpha1 through 2.8.1 ar...

sos security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2.2-29.0.1.el6 - Direct traceroute to linux.oracle.com John Haxby orabug 11713272 - Disable --upload option as it will not work with Oracle support - Check oraclelinux-release instead of redhat-release to get OS version John Haxby bug 11681869 - Remove RH ftp URL and support email - add...

Intel CPU Hardware Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Description 64-bit operating systems and virtualization software running on Intel CPU hardware are prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code with kernel-level privileges or to do a guest-to-host virtual...

Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.8 kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.9-89 -fix regression in cxgb3 driver spinlock usage Andy Gospodarek 495557 -cxgb3: fixup possible workqueue deadlocks Andy Gospodarek 495558 -e1000: network driver doesn t reset nic during shutdown and prevents pxe reloads George Beshers 465620 -cxgb3: fix msix bringup so we dont leak vectors...

Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.3 kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.18-128.el5 - cifs cifswritepages may skip unwritten pages Jeff Layton 470267 2.6.18-127.el5 - Revert: i386: check for dmidata in powernowk8 driver Prarit Bhargava 476184 - xen re-enable using xenpv in boot path for FV guests Don Dutile 473899 - xen pvhvm: guest hang on FV save/restore Don...

Updated kernel packages for Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.7

2.6.9-78 -alsa: Fix mic not working for HP XW series Brian Maly 453783 2.6.9-77 -alsa: Add missing quirks for alc262 Brian Maly 453783 -Revert 'i8042: remove polling timer support - Original bz 246233' Vivek Goyal 450918 2.6.9-76 -tty: fix tty holes Vivek Goyal 453155 CVE-2008-2812 -xen: fix use ...