Ksplice

Oracle Buys Ksplice

On July 21, 2011, Oracle announced that it has acquired Ksplice. The addition of Ksplice’s technology will increase the security, reliability and availability of Oracle Linux by enabling customers to apply security updates, diagnostics patches and critical bug fixes without rebooting. Read more.

Performance on security patches

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) list identifies 64 significant Linux kernel vulnerabilities (with greater impact than denial of service) from May 2005 to May 2008.

Ksplice can apply all of these patches without rebooting:

CVE identifierPatchPatch dateApplies with KspliceSample kernelModified patch
CVE-2005-1263a84a5052005-05-11Yes2.6.8
CVE-2005-126468f66fe2005-05-13Yes2.6.8
CVE-2005-1589118326e2005-05-14Yes2.6.11.9
CVE-2005-2456a4f1bac2005-07-26Yes2.6.8
CVE-2005-327671ae18e2005-07-27Yes2.6.12
CVE-2005-250058fcb8d2005-08-10Yes2.6.13-rc6
CVE-2005-24926d1cfe32005-09-19Yes2.6.12
CVE-2005-3179c0758142005-10-03Yes—with additional code2.6.13-rc6[full] [diff]
CVE-2005-31809bc39be2005-10-04Yes2.6.12
CVE-2005-2709330d57f2005-11-04Yes—with additional code2.6.13-rc6[full] [diff]
CVE-2005-46395c15c0b2005-11-08Yes2.6.12
CVE-2005-37847ed01752005-11-10Yes2.6.12
CVE-2005-46058b90db02005-12-30Yes2.6.12
CVE-2006-00959d3520a2006-01-06Yes2.6.12
CVE-2006-04576d940742006-02-03Yes2.6.12
CVE-2006-2071b78b6af2006-04-12Yes—with additional code2.6.16[full] [diff]
CVE-2006-152469cf0fa2006-04-17Yes2.6.16
CVE-2006-10567466f9e2006-04-20Yes—with additional code2.6.16[1] [2]
CVE-2006-1863296034f2006-04-21Yes2.6.16
CVE-2006-18643b7c8102006-05-15Yes2.6.16
CVE-2006-00392c8ac662006-05-19Yes2.6.16
CVE-2006-1857a6012662006-05-19Yes2.6.16
CVE-2006-1858dd2d1c62006-05-19Yes2.6.16
CVE-2006-13436c813c32006-05-28Yes2.6.16
CVE-2006-2935454d6fb2006-07-10Yes2.6.16
CVE-2006-2451abf75a52006-07-12Yes2.6.16
CVE-2006-362618b0bbd2006-07-14Yes2.6.16
CVE-2006-3745c164a9b2006-08-22Yes2.6.16
CVE-2006-5751ba8379b2006-11-20Yes2.6.16
CVE-2006-63046d4df672006-12-06Yes2.6.19
CVE-2006-5753be6aab02007-01-05Yes—with additional code2.6.19[full] [diff]
CVE-2006-6106f4777562007-01-08Yes2.6.16
CVE-2007-09581fb84492007-01-26Yes2.6.19
CVE-2007-121717f0cd22007-02-28Yes2.6.20.4
CVE-2007-0005059819a2007-03-06Yes2.6.16
CVE-2007-1000d2b02ed2007-03-09Yes2.6.16
CVE-2007-1730d35690b2007-03-16Yes2.6.16
CVE-2007-173439ebc022007-03-28Yes2.6.20.4
CVE-2007-2480de34ed92007-04-30Yes~2.6.21.1
CVE-2007-13530878b662007-05-05Yes2.6.16
CVE-2007-287585badbd2007-05-09Yes2.6.20.4
CVE-2007-31055a021e92007-07-19Yes2.6.22
CVE-2007-385121f16282007-08-07Yes—with additional code2.6.22[full] [diff]
CVE-2007-3848d2d56c52007-08-17Yes2.6.23-rc3
CVE-2007-3740a8cd9252007-09-13Yes2.6.23
CVE-2007-4571ccec6e22007-09-17Yes—with additional code2.6.22[full] [diff]
CVE-2007-43085f78e892007-11-07Yes2.6.23
CVE-2007-5904133672e2007-11-13Yes2.6.24-rc2
CVE-2007-6206c46f7392007-11-28Yes2.6.23
CVE-2007-6417e84e2e12007-11-28Yes2.6.23
CVE-2007-6063eafe1aa2007-12-01Yes2.6.23
CVE-2007-6434ecaf18c2007-12-04Yes2.6.23
CVE-2007-596662f0f612007-12-07Yes2.6.23
CVE-2008-0001974a9f02008-01-12Yes2.6.22
CVE-2008-00072f987352008-02-02Yes—with additional code2.6.24[full] [diff]
CVE-2008-000988119302008-02-08Yes2.6.23
CVE-2008-0600712a30e2008-02-10Yes2.6.23
CVE-2008-1367e40cd102008-03-05Yes2.6.25-rc4
CVE-2008-16756131a262008-04-20Yes2.6.24
CVE-2008-1375214b7042008-05-01Yes2.6.22
CVE-2008-214802c6be62008-05-01Yes2.6.24
CVE-2008-16690b2bac22008-05-06Yes2.6.22
CVE-2008-12949926e4c2008-05-08Yes~2.6.21.1
CVE-2008-1673ddb2c432008-06-04Yes2.6.24

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