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Fedora alert FEDORA-2007-432 (kernel)

From:  "Chuck Ebbert" <cebbert@redhat.com>
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora Core 6 Update: kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6
Date:  Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:55:49 -0400

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-432 2007-04-13 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 6 Name : kernel Version : 2.6.20 Release : 1.2944.fc6 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: Updated to upstream linux kernel 2.6.20.6: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6... http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6... CVE-2007-1357: The atalk_sum_skb function in AppleTalk for Linux kernel 2.6.x before 2.6.21, and possibly 2.4.x, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an AppleTalk frame that is shorter than the specified length, which triggers a BUG_ON call when an attempt is made to perform a checksum. CVSS Severity: 3.3 (Low) Plus additional fixes: Bugfix for ATI SB600 SATA Routing bugfix Libata LBA48 bugfix Update libata NCQ blacklist Libata request sense bugfix SCSI error handler fix --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Tue Apr 10 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> 1.2944 - 2.6.20.5 - 2.6.20.6 - GFS2 update (1414) - additional bugfixes (1820-1828) * Wed Apr 4 2007 Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> - Xen kernel profiling fix is broken, back it out. * Tue Apr 3 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> 1.2942 - 2.6.20.5-rc1 plus two fixes for broken -rc1 patches. - Remove patches that are now in 20.5-rc1. - 2106: move firmware timeout patch to here. - 2107: Disable PCI MSI and MMCONFIG by default, add options to enable them. * Mon Apr 2 2007 Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> - Xen kernel: >4G guest fix (Steven Rostedt ) fix nosegneg detection (Rik van Riel ) Use swiotlb mask for coherent mappings too (Herbert Xu ) Fix potential grant entry leaks on error (Herbert Xu ) Fix agp on x86_64 under Xen (Stephen C. Tweedie ) netback: Reenable TX queueing and drop pkts after timeout (Herbert Xu ) make ballooning work right (Rik van Riel ) Fix xen swiotlb for b44 module (Stephen C. Tweedie ) Copy shared data before verification (Herbert Xu ) Properly close block frontend on non-existant file (Glauber de Oliveira Costa ) blkback: Fix potential grant entry leaks on error (Rik van Riel ) blkback: Copy shared data before verification (Rik van Riel) netback: Fix wrap to zero in transmit credit scheduler. (Herbert Xu ) fix 2TB overflow in virtual disk driver (Rik van Riel ) blkback: Fix first_sect check. (Rik van Riel ) make netfront device permanent (Glauber de Oliveira Costa ) fix iSCSI root oops on x86_64 xen domU (Rik van Riel ) Avoid touching the watchdog when gone for too long (Glauber de Oliveira Costa ) fix profiling (Rik van Riel ) privcmd: Range-check hypercall index. (Herbert Xu ) Fix spinlock bad magic when removing xennet device (Chris Lalancette ) - Add PACKET_AUXDATA cmsg (Herbert Xu ) * Fri Mar 30 2007 Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com> - Overhaul ordering of build/don't build flag setting, such that nothing set at the top gets overridden later in the spec - Add support for --with/--without build flags as an alternative way to disable/enable specific builds - Add %buildid define to make it easier/more obvious how to tag a one-off build * Thu Mar 29 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - 1413: GFS2 update - enable kernel options: CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_PROC_COMPAT (#234174) CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM (requested for LSPP) - added patches 1819 - 1823: 2.6.20.5 DVB patches from maintainer 1824 : bt8xx autoload 1825 : i2o block driver (#228946) 1826 : classifier null deref 1827 : ide error recovery 1828 : mmap don't spam logs 1829 : net scheduler locking 1830 : NFS allow 64bit cookies 1831 : softmac (#234320) 1832 : bluetooth quirk (#230534) 1833 : firmware timeout 1834 : udf patches from -mm 1835 : i82875p edac pci unhide * Mon Mar 26 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - 2.6.20.4, which adds: fix for audit deadlock (#232845) fix for SCSI tape wrong block size (#224120) - added test patches 1800 thru 1818 1800, 1801: CIFS (#221081) 1802, 1803: DVB cx88 (#233416) 1804 : ide drive speed (#232147, #216374) 1806, 1807: sata_mv (#232811) 1808 : sky2 timeouts (#227420) 1809, 1810: ich7 (#216374) 1811, 1818: jmicron sata (#224680, #230838) 1812 : libata clear tf (#232991) 1815 : msix interrupts (#225399) 1817 : sata_nv NCQ (#232895) * Wed Mar 21 2007 Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> - Xen hypervisor: Enable Xen booting on machines with > 64G (Chris Lalancette ) fix TLB flushing in shadow pagetable mode (Rik van Riel ) quick fix for Cannot allocate memory (Steven Rostedt ) Register PIT handlers to the correct domain (Herbert Xu ) Replace inappropriate domain_crash_synchronous use (Herbert Xu ) Make HVM hypercall table NR_hypercalls entries big. (Herbert Xu ) >4G guest fix (Steven Rostedt ) emulate PIT channels for vbios support (Stephen C. Tweedie ) Race condition concerning VLAPIC interrupts (Bhavana Nagendra ) emulation for accesses faulting on a page boundary (Stephen C. Tweedie ) make ballooning work right (xen part) (Rik van Riel ) HVM crashes on IA32e SMP (Glauber de Oliveira Costa ) Fix for SMP Xen guest slow boot issue on AMD systems (Bhavana Nagendra ) Fix xen swiotlb for b44 module (xen part) (Stephen C. Tweedie ) upstream patches to make Windows Vista work (Steven Rostedt) AMD-V HVM fix for Windows hibernate (Bhavana Nagendra ) fix vcpu hotplug statistics (Rik van Riel ) xen pae >4GB patch (Don Zickus) AMD-V HVM windows guest boot menu timer issue (Steven Rostedt) --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/u... cd81e110081d6e190ce715d1e2c57e92504a6c99 SRPMS/kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6.src.rpm cd81e110081d6e190ce715d1e2c57e92504a6c99 noarch/kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6.src.rpm 28667cb82ba296784747da16d033cf184c5992b9 ppc/kernel-smp-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6.ppc.rpm 8aac83f721f6a7cdd38c13edf3a5b241a43c5eab ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6.ppc.rpm bfdb749208ea31f9c7ef803e9c6ba574fc979b88 ppc/kernel-headers-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6.ppc.rpm 4278e56e01040ab3c048b72daa453dced08c453c ppc/kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6.ppc.rpm 4e0cb256f9175e7bc6bb3d7076b028eb775f817d 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i386/kernel-devel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6.i686.rpm ff47a85ba991b9988ecda8e8720ae8441c968c4e i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6.i686.rpm b20448402504096a5326a8200d5582ef2bd17921 i386/kernel-doc-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6.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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