[Oraclevm-errata] OVMSA-2016-0014 Important: Oracle VM 3.3 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

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Thu Feb 18 18:54:40 PST 2016


Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2016-0014

The following updated rpms for Oracle VM 3.3 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kernel-uek-3.8.13-118.3.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-3.8.13-118.3.2.el6uek.noarch.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/oraclevm/server/3.3/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-3.8.13-118.3.2.el6uek.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[3.8.13-118.3.2.el6uek]
- x86/nmi/64: Use DF to avoid userspace RSP confusing nested NMI 
detection (Andy Lutomirski)  [Orabug: 22742507]  {CVE-2015-5157}
- x86/nmi/64: Reorder nested NMI checks (Andy Lutomirski)  [Orabug: 
22742507]  {CVE-2015-5157}
- x86/nmi/64: Improve nested NMI comments (Andy Lutomirski)  [Orabug: 
22742507]  {CVE-2015-5157}
- x86/nmi/64: Switch stacks on userspace NMI entry (Andy Lutomirski) 
[Orabug: 22742507]  {CVE-2015-5157}
- x86/paravirt: Replace the paravirt nop with a bona fide empty function 
(Andy Lutomirski)  [Orabug: 22742507]  {CVE-2015-5157}




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