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Fedora alert FEDORA-2007-1785 (kernel)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-1785 2007-08-23 22:42:07.243832 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : kernel Product : Fedora 7 Version : 2.6.22.4 Release : 65.fc7 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: Update to kernel 2.6.22.2, 2.6.22.3 and 2.6.22.4: 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... - Fix failure to find serial ports on some machines. - Detect broken timers on some AMD dual-core machines: fixes hangs and failure to boot. - Don't crash when a userspace driver requests too much memory. - Update the CFS scheduler to more closely match upstream. - Wireless driver update. - Enable ACPI_DEBUG in -debug builds. - Fix e820 memory hole sizing on x86_64. - Add four bugfixes for sky2 ethernet. - Fix some SCSI async scanning bugs. - Fix polling in r8169 driver. - Fix wrong sensor values with some chips. CVE-2007-3848: Linux kernel 2.4.35 and other versions allows local users to send arbitrary signals to a child process that is running at higher privileges by causing a setuid-root parent process to die, which delivers an attacker-controlled parent process death signal (PR_SET_PDEATHSIG). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Aug 21 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - sky2: don't clear PHY power bits * Tue Aug 21 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - Hibernation: do not try to mark invalid PFNs as nosave * Tue Aug 21 2007 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - 2.6.22.4 * Thu Aug 16 2007 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - Fix symvers warning on install of debug kernel. * Thu Aug 16 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - sensors: fix wrong values with some chips - r8169: fix polling - forcedeth: fix wrong OUI for PHY - SCSI: fix async scanning - sky2: 4 patches from maintainer * Thu Aug 16 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - enable ACPI_DEBUG in -debug builds - fix e820 memory hole sizing on x86_64 - export GFS2 symbols for lock modules * Wed Aug 15 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - Linux 2.6.22.3 * Wed Aug 15 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - ACPI: fix broken conversion of older FADTs - ACPI: fix possible corruption of GPE list * Tue Aug 14 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - revert "don't BUG on too-large memory allocation" - limit memory allocated by input force feedback drivers * Tue Aug 14 2007 John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> - Update wireless-dev bits (mac80211 & ssb updates, bcm43xx -> b43 rename) * Tue Aug 14 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - update CFS scheduler with upstream patches * Tue Aug 14 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - set CONFIG_NET_RADIO (#251094) * Fri Aug 10 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - 2.6.22.2 - serial: revert changes to port detection * Fri Aug 10 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - don't use incremental patches for -stable updates - update CFS scheduler patch - update utrace patches * Wed Aug 8 2007 John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> - Update wireless bits (upstream fixes, iwlwifi and bcm43xx updates) * Wed Aug 8 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - add xt_statistic.h to header list for iptables - detect broken lapic timer on some dual-core AMD systems - don't BUG on too-large memory allocation * Tue Aug 7 2007 John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> - mac80211: probe for hidden SSIDs during when scanning for association * Mon Aug 6 2007 John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> - Update git-wireless-dev.patch (bcm43xx & zd1211rw updates) - mac80211: Filter locally-originated multicast frames echoed by AP (2nd try) * Fri Aug 3 2007 John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> - Disable busted mac80211 local multicast filter patch * Thu Aug 2 2007 John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> - Update git-wireless-dev.patch (iwlwifi, rt2x00, & zd1211rw updates) - mac80211: Filter locally-originated multicast frames echoed by AP * Wed Aug 1 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - fix crash in xfrm4 * Tue Jul 31 2007 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> - fix softmac deadlock. * Fri Jul 27 2007 John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> - Update git-wireless-dev.patch (iwlwifi & bcm43xx updates) - Remove hunk of linux-2.6-wireless that was reverted upstream * Fri Jul 27 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - revert upstream "genirq: do not mask interrupts by default" * Fri Jul 27 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - fix DMI strings in HP notebook quirk for ALI controller * Fri Jul 27 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - sync the CFS scheduler timekeeping changes with upstream * Fri Jul 27 2007 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> - Update PlayStation 3 support (#249217) * Wed Jul 25 2007 John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> - update wireless bits * Wed Jul 25 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - kernel requires newer version of cpuspeed - pata_hpt37x: Fix 2.6.22 clock PLL regression (#249254) - atl1: possibly fix DMA bugs (#249511) * Wed Jul 25 2007 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> - Restore bcm43xx functionality - Restore PowerMac suspend-to-ram via /sys/power/state (since userspace forgot how to use the PMU ioctls) - Restore ofpath functionality (IDE_PROC_FS=y) * Mon Jul 23 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - set CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ only in -debug kernels * Mon Jul 23 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - set CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS (should fix #249211) * Mon Jul 23 2007 Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com> - Re-enable aes-i586 and twofish-i586 for i686 kernels (#249158) * Fri Jul 20 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - SDHCI: clear the error interrupt bit - ftdi_sio: fix oops * Fri Jul 20 2007 John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> - update wireless bits * Fri Jul 20 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - utrace update - CFS scheduler update * Tue Jul 17 2007 John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> - update wireless bits * Tue Jul 17 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - gfs2: update to the latest - sched: fix show_task()/show_tasks() output - sched: fix newly idle load balance in case of SMT - sched: fix the all pinned logic in load_balance_newidle() - fix leaks of struct seq_operations - fix leaks of ref to user struct - pata_atiixp: add SB700 PCI ID - ata_piix: fix pio/mwdma programming - sdhci: add ene controller id - sdhci: Fix "Unexpected interrupt" handling * Mon Jul 16 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - bluetooth: hangup tty before releasing rfcomm - driver core: get driver properly during release - net scheduler: fix deadlock - input: rfkill driver screws up the CPU flags - acpi-cpufreq: make register write work properly again * Mon Jul 16 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - add proper caching of last_ctl to the 'unbreak SMART' fix * Mon Jul 16 2007 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - Unbreak SMART on libata. * Mon Jul 16 2007 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - Disable warnings that trigger due to disabled USB suspend. * Fri Jul 13 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - add more ATI SB700 ids to the ahci driver * Thu Jul 12 2007 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - Some systems have a HPET which is not incrementing, which leads to a complete hang. Detect it during HPET setup. * Thu Jul 12 2007 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - Replace the pcspkr private PIT lock by the global PIT lock to serialize the PIT access all over the place. * Thu Jul 12 2007 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - Add back the rediffed PS3 patches. * Thu Jul 12 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - ata: update noncq list - idr: multiple bugfixes - tcp: sack fix leak msgs - vbe: always save ddc data * Thu Jul 12 2007 Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com> - Fix up some uname -r issues in certain kernel version cases (due to new versioning scheme) * Wed Jul 11 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - jbd: fix transaction dropping (kernel oops) - kvm: reinit real mode TSS on shutdown - kvm: detect SVM disabled by BIOS * Wed Jul 11 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - sky2: re-enable lost interrupt workarounds - aacraid: ioctl handler needs permission check * Wed Jul 11 2007 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - NFS: Add the mount option "nosharecache" * Wed Jul 11 2007 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - Revert mkinitrd requires: bump to what's in FC7. * Wed Jul 11 2007 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - Remove the x86-64 tickless patches, they aren't ready. * Wed Jul 11 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - 2.6.22.1 * Wed Jul 11 2007 John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> - Update git-wireless-dev.patch - Add upstream version of rtl8187 patch - Add updated iwlwifi driver from intellinuxwireless.org * Tue Jul 10 2007 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - Fix issue with PIE randomization (#246623). * Tue Jul 10 2007 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - Rebase to 2.6.22 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] CVE-2007-3848 http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-200... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated packages: 1c23041b40c8d7078355f0edf78fbdf0e605bfb3 kernel-doc-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.noarch.rpm 86832531976f1f28acc75764757bc22400b16cbe kernel-headers-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.i386.rpm f0dd47d7242768e1f911f4fa4767b2a5c84e1333 kernel-devel-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.i686.rpm 0d9cf179eaa5b1dfaf0a8994a16ad6bcc3e2665b kernel-debug-devel-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.i686.rpm 37c1a8a4f5f02cf77f14faceb73c5a36c479bb2e kernel-PAE-debug-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.i686.rpm 6cc3db041616d19b2b9731975d789c3dcd63edae kernel-PAE-debug-debuginfo-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.i686.rpm 2a0fc573d73dc94d34bd9a56e73e14f2e1243817 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.i686.rpm 6065128b0ae24348fa864338aa645921f310c1ed kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.i686.rpm 7aba789ef190b5fe31e50498598ecc0f5147d2df kernel-PAE-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.i686.rpm 5a950dfe594587da704fc4a66d488f6681a8973c kernel-debug-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.i686.rpm e2aa091be53eeaae49b2fba9da97c38cc4345d8a kernel-PAE-debug-devel-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.i686.rpm bdef9dd56dff73dad9505e6f59718ddb48ecbd97 kernel-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.i686.rpm 94ca318de12bf3d97d0a454e29763fe9d061ffe2 kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.i686.rpm ff8745274535dcc77b2d13eef6169e19d5601cb2 kernel-PAE-debuginfo-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.i686.rpm f7455a2eec1b86a1714780d7c2906c9af5296e63 kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.i686.rpm 2093207008ca2968065bc5aa734bdf416de2c7e7 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.ppc64.rpm 3fe83c9c8df9f350b21cd19bbea67618312cc33c kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.ppc64.rpm b0d336f45c1aa3da57e1704a9d3639fe5b6c8085 kernel-headers-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.ppc64.rpm 68009ed7312a32076b3c5c3470daa6d6115dec16 kernel-kdump-debuginfo-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.ppc64.rpm 10e783faa67c6d2b41091a39c644d97208033a02 kernel-kdump-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.ppc64.rpm c30323da2f9a073e3ba0da77debe9b20e4b35759 kernel-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.ppc64.rpm cf27321c70608399c37fb685e9ee57e31eeb0037 kernel-devel-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.ppc64.rpm 7067412ffd0c9cf905eea5871eea9ec8b6cd6f26 kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.ppc64.rpm f35b79a1f7805514859165f7b502e7707d77299e kernel-devel-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.i586.rpm 04e856a961d85e42a4971367e48b7a732dd4e723 kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.i586.rpm 9667c42d11547d4d79fa788a6af3429b5718d298 kernel-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.i586.rpm 86c14be93fc82c4281af0e66c5500cc90eddcc16 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.i586.rpm d72fba9743a1cc45bd82b6e9b2c170422caa2524 kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.x86_64.rpm 085d71a5e7a57c345b40eb22d82216f3aa5b53bc kernel-debug-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.x86_64.rpm 42a1db3c15a71bd8ce8a3455f1414cf9624aa772 kernel-debug-devel-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.x86_64.rpm 86368325d1e6e7c16970f78e473b347d31408d17 kernel-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.x86_64.rpm 7e93b66a71abc40121096a1dfc8e66d92f584036 kernel-headers-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.x86_64.rpm bcbc4932609e3103c2bee1d0191e409a1c01376f kernel-debuginfo-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.x86_64.rpm e5a2d387f83d6a833064f597f59b42592c485813 kernel-devel-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.x86_64.rpm 2f457eea7810e9f1bc524ea7610d33c09a0ae463 kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.x86_64.rpm 0581ee204060c0fba195a9bbef1035f171f6c8df kernel-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.ppc.rpm 064a373695f097a77cf3c3018faf94eaa9d9c0e1 kernel-smp-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.ppc.rpm 9c8e6fd0b15b9b350acfe362ccfee5fcb56337a6 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.ppc.rpm eba8dec236b9ae678e8e50dbe3bd6a01803f5954 kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.ppc.rpm 89268e15396336b8d5412eaeded500b05c7c0d3a kernel-debuginfo-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.ppc.rpm 3b0f9bb3da20dc9eb915e1d425a7cad8209cf98d kernel-headers-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.ppc.rpm 29affa1fa6f567ffcf044ba43f0c96b1871592c8 kernel-smp-debuginfo-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.ppc.rpm 2f646cbec5dea2cdd8f9ab81da60dd5d006dc5a7 kernel-devel-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.ppc.rpm ab073b2d7f612d97e6b872908a7e78fa34081cfe kernel-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.src.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://docs.fedoraproject.org/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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