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ELSA-2007:0014 Important: kernel security update

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ELSA-2007:0014 Important: kernel security update

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/05/2006
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/20/2011
Modified
04/11/2019

Description

The dev_queue_xmit function in Linux kernel 2.6 can fail before calling the local_bh_disable function, which could lead to data corruption and "node lockups." NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue is exploitable.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-doc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-hugemem
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-hugemem-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-largesmp
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-largesmp-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-smp
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-smp-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-ocfs2
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-oracleasm

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