An unbreakable enterprise kernel security update has been released for Oracle Linux 5 ELS.

El-errata: ELSA-2020-5936 Important: Oracle Linux 5 Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2020-5936

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-5936.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 5 Extended Lifecycle Support
(ELS) have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.327.1.el5uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-400.327.1.el5uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-400.327.1.el5uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-400.327.1.el5uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-400.327.1.el5uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-400.327.1.el5uek.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-400.327.1.el5uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-400.327.1.el5uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.327.1.el5uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-400.327.1.el5uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-400.327.1.el5uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-400.327.1.el5uek.x86_64.rpm


Description of changes:

[2.6.39-400.327.1.el5uek]
- USB: serial: omninet: fix reference leaks at open (Johan Hovold)
[Orabug: 30484765] {CVE-2017-8925}
- x86_32, entry: Store badsys error code in %eax (Sven Wegener) [Orabug:
30783266] {CVE-2014-4508} {CVE-2014-4508}
- x86_32, entry: Do syscall exit work on badsys (CVE-2014-4508) (Andy
Lutomirski) [Orabug: 30783266] {CVE-2014-4508} {CVE-2014-4508}