Synopsis
The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :
- x86/iopl/64: properly context-switch IOPL on Xen PV (Andy Lutomirski) [Orabug: 25269184] (CVE-2016-3157)
- net: Fix use after free in the recvmmsg exit path (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) [Orabug: 25298618] (CVE-2016-7117)
- logging errors that get masked to EIO inside drivers/block/loop.c (Manjunath Patil) [Orabug:
21962821]
- sched/core: Clear the root_domain cpumasks in init_rootdomain (Xunlei Pang) [Orabug: 23518650]
- bio allocation failure due to bio_get_nr_vecs (Darrick J. Wong)
- mlx4: avoid ABBA deadlock (Wengang Wang) [Orabug:
23538548]
- mlx4: avoid multiple free on id_map_ent (Wengang Wang) [Orabug: 25022815]
- sctp: validate chunk len before actually using it (Marcelo Ricardo Leitner) [Orabug: 25142906] (CVE-2016-9555)
- NVMe: reduce queue depth as workaround for Samsung EPIC SQ errata (Ashok Vairavan) [Orabug: 25138146]
- RDS: Drop the connection as part of cancel to avoid hangs (Avinash Repaka) [Orabug: 24951873]
- 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
Solution
Update the affected kernel-uek / kernel-uek-firmware packages.