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Fedora alert FEDORA-2006-499 (kernel)

From:  "Dave Jones" <davej@redhat.com>
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora Core 5 Update: kernel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5
Date:  Wed, 3 May 2006 15:06:06 -0400

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2006-499 2006-05-03 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 5 Name : kernel Version : 2.6.16 Release : 1.2107_FC5 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_FC5] - 2.6.16.13 * Mon May 1 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - 2.6.16.12 * Tue Apr 25 2006 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@redhat.com> - Use check_legacy_ioport() even on 32-bit PPC kernel * Tue Apr 25 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - Enable DVB in the 586 kernel. (#188227) - Fix up SCSI errors with mymusix usb mp3 player (#186187) * Mon Apr 24 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - 2.6.16.11 --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/u... b709d63c7c6beaae4d82720c4f8bf6645262e635 SRPMS/kernel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.src.rpm d6a215870871a339934b050692c833d73b1a0667 ppc/kernel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.ppc.rpm 841e83b725825b3a795bec6c0a14c1ea3635dd35 ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.ppc.rpm 75557e647016fa3b04fdab58a273dae0b3d3d45d ppc/kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.ppc.rpm 7befd3e878f7f04b60fe3acb4e0fab9768366f66 ppc/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.ppc.rpm 7d43719318cec52d37b6a0f7c951cee1a9f2a4ae ppc/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.ppc.rpm 2c3a0afc60d68d47ec73590898473cd9156b9eac ppc/kernel-doc-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.noarch.rpm 6d7d779498bb21761ccee161008fbff863f1dd68 x86_64/kernel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.x86_64.rpm e513cbc4e05b191c91d2e2209c4ec5d2e057dc4c x86_64/kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.x86_64.rpm 477ec5e40e83e037b828c419a245601fd333968e x86_64/kernel-xen0-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.x86_64.rpm 192ca810f581526da6132afc07108c35c431b2d3 x86_64/kernel-xen0-devel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.x86_64.rpm f0e2656f68f5b2108b49698e690a074805b49d5e x86_64/kernel-xenU-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.x86_64.rpm 1c817b121cf9a653823abcf7856fe72804f32f0e x86_64/kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.x86_64.rpm 4a0abf5d40347583b7e38a9b027786928c612bea x86_64/kernel-kdump-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.x86_64.rpm f7be303ca6b0eed30d630538e5237bf3a7974d9b x86_64/kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.x86_64.rpm 88030c6411dae701d6eb7424741d3ef6754b2368 x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.x86_64.rpm 2c3a0afc60d68d47ec73590898473cd9156b9eac x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.noarch.rpm e6ef3585092867d91b94d022a4c3599fc6615d24 i386/kernel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.i586.rpm bccec2b606a2775828daeb2ebdbcc0fd5dc150a4 i386/kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.i586.rpm 5a40572dbe7a6fc512e96450e9370564ada578af i386/kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.i586.rpm f4691e99045e22fbb4b5df73ec3bfad082df7af8 i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.i586.rpm 55c6d3903de0df74b1a7b2a896399eeec5e0538a i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.i586.rpm 5b2887fe8364654d402a25c215f7a3332c919dcc i386/kernel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.i686.rpm c861fb045a9f72a281350afd31584449ec2b1528 i386/kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.i686.rpm 06998ed355679d3066b88960c24fcc1d93307b0c i386/kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.i686.rpm 94eb9ae143d5c2f19e4330a7f49918ac75daaa73 i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.i686.rpm df6a27c970436ab10d0b1d602897b146ab5c1bf7 i386/kernel-xen0-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.i686.rpm 1d27977ce0fe976c8a31635de7b3b999b22088df i386/kernel-xen0-devel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.i686.rpm 261dc38a4577b00c7b9b5e9dc3c9a51cc4aca859 i386/kernel-xenU-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.i686.rpm b46ea119e3c21e2ace4e25282023561190391420 i386/kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.i686.rpm 5c70d0fa635f0cff5ccaac38e8988fd0541cdd11 i386/kernel-kdump-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.i686.rpm 107fbcaf87ba31e0dee2bf2e4c649f1b5b5a8768 i386/kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.i686.rpm bd372c707184e272a18eee5b19a50f4592d36539 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.i686.rpm 2c3a0afc60d68d47ec73590898473cd9156b9eac i386/kernel-doc-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.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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