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Fedora alert FEDORA-2006-573 (kernel)
--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2006-573 2006-05-21 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 4 Name : kernel Version : 2.6.16 Release : 1.2111_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: This update rebases to the latest upstream -stable release (2.6.16.17), where a number of security problems have been fixed, notably: SCTP: Validate the parameter length in HB-ACK chunk (CVE-2006-1857) SCTP: Respect the real chunk length when walking parameters (CVE-2006-1858) fs/locks.c: Fix lease_init (CVE-2006-1860) SCTP: Fix state table entries for chunks received in CLOSED state. (CVE-2006-2271) SCTP: Fix panic's when receiving fragmented SCTP control chunks. (CVE-2006-2272) SCTP: Prevent possible infinite recursion with multiple bundled DATA. (CVE-2006-2274) SCTP: Allow spillover of receive buffer to avoid deadlock. (CVE-2006-2275) Complete changelogs for the -stable 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... Fedora specific changes are detailed below --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Sat May 20 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> [2.6.16-1.2111_FC4] - 2.6.16.17 * Wed May 10 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> [2.6.16-1.2110_FC4] - 2.6.16.16 * Tue May 9 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> [2.6.16-1.2109_FC4] - 2.6.16.15 - make 16C950 UARTs work (again). (#126403) - Fix exec-shield default, which should fix a few programs that stopped running. --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/u... 3b4b0e05b842af3c2507d28c3831d5af41e4706e SRPMS/kernel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.src.rpm 84f06db088de18a2b0798ee40edb6464d25092fb ppc/kernel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.ppc.rpm 894ba0303f8dff0a8d69a89fe8d1b3831a245499 ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.ppc.rpm 2211e8173c58df4501dc81c18acac4b85cdcdc71 ppc/kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.ppc.rpm 6b6659faedb26b60561789c93bbde52f67ecf4fb ppc/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.ppc.rpm a80bd51fc41f28a5fd9b6a93b20b6248c8e563ec ppc/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.ppc.rpm b2a986df6c4b1018de128f747535a140db4152bc ppc/kernel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.ppc64.rpm 244842133fb8e4f609f5375115aecf4db75fba77 ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.ppc64.rpm 8ff1ecbf8138cf413e4061b5b1555c4a72f33eb8 ppc/kernel-doc-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.noarch.rpm 10bae5f22607665a3472ee78fe45b39f292f8753 x86_64/kernel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.x86_64.rpm 8918a687df2777bac0403699b10bde570f1a7159 x86_64/kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.x86_64.rpm 2f71bb7ca128a264f68b80cf4e115865f2834605 x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.x86_64.rpm f54d5e81ad9710e3aaffc0e78c62d84635641f64 x86_64/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.x86_64.rpm 2eef808f2825cbe675dab7c9628448e3f5ff74f4 x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.x86_64.rpm 8ff1ecbf8138cf413e4061b5b1555c4a72f33eb8 x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.noarch.rpm 59ebba1857ef49b498cb2ad6b59dde5e1561e935 i386/kernel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.i586.rpm 40245241a83c77ab597fffe56ca541304b47f864 i386/kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.i586.rpm e8c41f5fc2149654a02f92989bad8fe112c527c0 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.i586.rpm 891975dc64894670960fc668ca00fd0a1cdb0c83 i386/kernel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.i686.rpm adf336b527bad3b4555cfe4b8f0b08d39e4689e9 i386/kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.i686.rpm 44750f35ef5ca8d52c6907359e4b6a3a10104850 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.i686.rpm 684c4450d9d85b9b74e15108ff53577be78682fe i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.i686.rpm 9b0703d258042b05d098b29701deccbae2645b52 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.i686.rpm 8ff1ecbf8138cf413e4061b5b1555c4a72f33eb8 i386/kernel-doc-2.6.16-1.2111_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... (Log in to post comments)
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