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Fedora alert FEDORA-2006-500 (kernel)

From:  "Dave Jones" <davej@redhat.com>
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora Core 4 Update: kernel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4
Date:  Wed, 3 May 2006 15:08:30 -0400

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2006-500 2006-05-03 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 4 Name : kernel Version : 2.6.16 Release : 1.2107_FC4 Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system) Description : The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: An update to the latest upstream -stable snapshot (2.6.16.13) Among quite a few bug-fixes, are two security related fixes: Don't allow a backslash in a path component (CVE-2006-1863) NETFILTER: SCTP conntrack: fix infinite loop (CVE-2006-1527) Detailed changelogs of the last few point releases can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6... http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6... http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6... http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6... Fedora specific changelog detailed below. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Tue May 2 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> [2.6.16-1.2107_FC4] - 2.6.16.13 * Mon May 1 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - 2.6.16.12 * Tue Apr 25 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - Fix up SCSI errors with mymusix usb mp3 player (#186187) * Mon Apr 24 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - 2.6.16.11 * Wed Apr 19 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - Enable PCI MSI support. --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/u... 243399f89c6772c1cd9d5299a33446785d6fac25 SRPMS/kernel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.src.rpm 25afbc8c6329bd78acae8d9ea3a5c47d58a66341 ppc/kernel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.ppc.rpm 19a948bc1081ae2233cb1bafe89873183f36c9b9 ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.ppc.rpm cca6cb7c692cb12b93d9b998539ddd5a84166839 ppc/kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.ppc.rpm 54677cfb2f0f5c98f5d03d5a1093f85291e137e0 ppc/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.ppc.rpm bc36919b51d7dad77a7a468aa41a51b4733bd5b6 ppc/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.ppc.rpm 21fa63f5ad928851ec16befb34fe190dc171ed25 ppc/kernel-doc-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.noarch.rpm f514b543f7128bc535348db7eeefd47651c1d266 x86_64/kernel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.x86_64.rpm 54388bdc5cf19dcb24454d34b0c33f8de7d0cd34 x86_64/kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.x86_64.rpm 3cf98b25c798059ba798aa48597657fec3fb0945 x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.x86_64.rpm a1b7410cbb4632441ede390aef02ed385916d3f2 x86_64/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.x86_64.rpm a196d77602756ff8439f2b5840d453581de146ec x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.x86_64.rpm 21fa63f5ad928851ec16befb34fe190dc171ed25 x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.noarch.rpm 6e18dad108e0d624c1f5b715d6f693147e384331 i386/kernel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.i586.rpm 89f29f2d16cdf7a65ea81ec0412e09d06e0ff523 i386/kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.i586.rpm ee27a39ae76d7b2de0a5dd18a11ba46b1e46ece6 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.i586.rpm d2d5c99a69c38528ab26beb062e032693ae8d831 i386/kernel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.i686.rpm 39a72f9a9a1db69a4b0ed83fb7a97fd4dac9270f i386/kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.i686.rpm 9b1220f64666f0ecb611123ee111f9653a961249 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.i686.rpm 06b9469119c304ed657eef4af6461cd490251826 i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.i686.rpm d14240fc7d7f63407fbee796bafd719cf9db8afa i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.i686.rpm 21fa63f5ad928851ec16befb34fe190dc171ed25 i386/kernel-doc-2.6.16-1.2107_FC4.noarch.rpm This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/. --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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