This would take place as far as possible during the off-peak hours. A reboot is required to complete the upgrade. The downtime should not exceed 30 minutes and it will be minimize as much as possible.
This update is scheduled as follows:
Date: 13 June 2015 (Saturday) to 15 June 2015 (Monday)
Time: Between 2AM and 8AM EST#
Details of CentOS 6 security update*
It was found that the Linux kernel's implementation of vectored pipe read and write functionality did not take into account the I/O vectors that were already processed when retrying after a failed atomic access operation, potentially resulting in memory corruption due to an I/O vector array overrun. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-1805, Important)
A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Intel AES-NI instructions optimized version of the RFC4106 GCM mode decryption functionality handled fragmented packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash, or potentially escalate their privileges on, a system over a connection with an active AES-GCM mode IPSec security association. (CVE-2015-3331, Important)
An information leak flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel changed certain segment registers and thread-local storage (TLS) during a context switch. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to leak the user space TLS base address of an arbitrary process. (CVE-2014-9419, Low)
It was found that the Linux kernel's ISO file system implementation did not correctly limit the traversal of Rock Ridge extension Continuation Entries (CE). An attacker with physical access to the system could use this flaw to trigger an infinite loop in the kernel, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-9420, Low)
An information leak flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Virtual Dynamic Shared Object (vDSO) implementation performed address randomization. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to leak kernel memory addresses to user-space. (CVE-2014-9585, Low)
This update also fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements.
Details of CentOS 5 security update
It was found that the Linux kernel's implementation of vectored pipe read and write functionality did not take into account the I/O vectors that were already processed when retrying after a failed atomic access operation, potentially resulting in memory corruption due to an I/O vector array overrun. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-1805, Important)
This update fixes the following bugs:
Due to a bug in the lpfc_device_reset_handler() function, a scsi command timeout could lead to a system crash. With this update, lpfc_device_reset_handler recovers storage without crashing. (BZ#1070964)
Due to the code decrementing the reclaim_in_progress counter without having incremented it first, severe spinlock contention occurred in the shrink_zone() function even though the m.max_reclaims_in_progress feature was set to 1. This update provides a patch fixing the underlying source code, and spinlock contention no longer occurs in this scenario. (BZ#1164105)
A TCP socket using SACK that had a retransmission but recovered from it, failed to reset the retransmission timestamp. As a consequence, on certain connections, if a packet had to be re-transmitted, the retrans_stamp variable was only cleared when the next acked packet was received.
This could lead to an early abortion of the TCP connection if this next packet also got lost. With this update, the socket clears retrans_stamp when the recovery is completed, thus fixing the bug. (BZ#1205521)
Previously, the signal delivery paths did not clear the TS_USEDFPU flag, which could cause problems in the switch_to() function and lead to floating-point unit (FPU) corruption. With this update, TS_USEDFPU is cleared as expected, and FPU is no longer under threat of corruption. (BZ#1193505)
A race condition in the exit_sem() function previously caused the semaphore undo list corruption. As a consequence, a kernel crash could occur. The corruption in the semaphore undo list has been fixed, and the kernel no longer crashes in this situation. (BZ#1124574)
Previously, when running the "virsh blockresize [Device] [Newsize]" command to resize the disk, the new size was not reflected in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Virtual Machine (VM). With this update, the new size is now reflected online immediately in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 VM so it is no longer necessary to reboot the VM to see the new disk size. (BZ#1200855)
Lördag, juni 13, 2015
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