[Oraclevm-errata] OVMSA-2016-0167 Important: Oracle VM 3.2 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

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Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2016-0167

The following updated rpms for Oracle VM 3.2 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.290.2.el5uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-400.290.2.el5uek.noarch.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/oraclevm/server/3.2/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.290.2.el5uek.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.6.39-400.290.2.el5uek]
- aacraid: Check size values after double-fetch from user (Dave Carroll) 
  [Orabug: 25060055]  {CVE-2016-6480} {CVE-2016-6480}
- audit: fix a double fetch in audit_log_single_execve_arg() (Paul 
Moore)  [Orabug: 25059962]  {CVE-2016-6136}
- ecryptfs: don't allow mmap when the lower fs doesn't support it (Jeff 
Mahoney)  [Orabug: 24971918]  {CVE-2016-1583} {CVE-2016-1583}
- ALSA: timer: Fix leak in events via snd_timer_user_tinterrupt (Kangjie 
Lu)  [Orabug: 25059900]  {CVE-2016-4578}
- ALSA: timer: Fix leak in events via snd_timer_user_ccallback (Kangjie 
Lu)  [Orabug: 25059900]  {CVE-2016-4578}
- ALSA: timer: Fix leak in SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_PARAMS (Kangjie Lu) 
[Orabug: 25059755]  {CVE-2016-4569}
- Bluetooth: Fix potential NULL dereference in RFCOMM bind callback 
(Jaganath Kanakkassery)  [Orabug: 25058905]  {CVE-2015-8956}
- mm: migrate dirty page without clear_page_dirty_for_io etc (Hugh 
Dickins)  [Orabug: 25059195]  {CVE-2016-3070}

[2.6.39-400.290.1.el5uek]
- intel_idle: Fix C0 state for BDW (Guru Anbalagane)  [Orabug: 25024180]

[2.6.39-400.289.1.el5uek]
- intel_idle: update Broadwell cstates (Brian Maly)  [Orabug: 25024180]

[2.6.39-400.288.1.el5uek]
- Revert "ecryptfs: forbid opening files without mmap handler" (Brian 
Maly)  [Orabug: 24971918]
- ocfs2: o2hb: fix hb hung time (Junxiao Bi)
- ocfs2: o2hb: don't negotiate if last hb fail (Junxiao Bi)
- ocfs2: o2hb: add some user/debug log (Junxiao Bi)
- ocfs2: o2hb: add NEGOTIATE_APPROVE message (Junxiao Bi)
- ocfs2: o2hb: add NEGO_TIMEOUT message (Junxiao Bi)
- ocfs2: o2hb: add negotiate timer (Junxiao Bi)

[2.6.39-400.287.1.el5uek]
- ecryptfs: forbid opening files without mmap handler (Jann Horn) 
[Orabug: 24971919]  {CVE-2016-1583}
- RDS: IB: fix panic with handlers running post teardown (Santosh 
Shilimkar)  [Orabug: 24314773]
- ocfs2: improve recovery performance (Junxiao Bi)  [Orabug: 24589532]
- ocfs2: call ocfs2_journal_access_di() before  ocfs2_journal_dirty() in 
ocfs2_write_end_nolock() (Junxiao Bi)  [Orabug: 24606864]



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