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New Ksplice updates for UEKR3 3.8.13 on Oracle Linux 6 and 7 has been released.



El-errata: New Ksplice updates for UEKR3 3.8.13 on OL6 and OL7 (ELSA-2020-5968)


Synopsis: ELSA-2020-5968 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2020-10769

Users with Oracle Linux Premier Support can now use Ksplice to patch
against the latest Oracle Linux Security Advisory, ELSA-2020-5968.
More information about this errata can be found at
  https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-5968.html

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack running UEKR3 3.8.13 on
OL6 and OL7 install these updates.

On systems that have "autoinstall = yes" in /etc/uptrack/uptrack.conf,
these updates will be installed automatically and you do not need to
take any action.

Alternatively, you can install these updates by running:

# /usr/sbin/uptrack-upgrade -y

DESCRIPTION

* CVE-2020-10769: Out-of-bounds memory access in authenticated encryption key parsing.

A logic error when reading unaligned keys for authenticated encryption can lead
to an integer underflow and result in a out-of-bounds memory access, leading to
a kernel crash. A local user could use this flaw to cause a denial-of-service.

Orabug: 31535530

SUPPORT

Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support_ww@oracle.com.