Fedora alert FEDORA-2007-2298 (kernel)
| From: | updates@fedoraproject.org | |
| To: | fedora-package-announce@redhat.com | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: kernel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7 | |
| Date: | Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:44:20 -0700 | |
| Message-ID: | <200709251544.l8PFiPeW010706@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-2298 2007-09-25 08:29:28 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : kernel Product : Fedora 7 Version : 2.6.22.7 Release : 85.fc7 URL : [] 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 official Linux 2.6.22.6 (from 2.6.22.6-rc1): http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6... Update to Linux 2.6.22.7: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6... - libata: add option to disable DMA on PATA devices (libata.pata_dma, see kernel-parameters.txt for details) - libata: fix DMA on ATAPI devices with it821x (#242229) - libata: fix cable detection on pata_via - fix vmware's broken SCSI device emulation (#241935) - fix init of huawei 220 modem (#253096) - LVM: fix hang and lockups during snapshot (#269541) - net: fix oops with zero-length packet - USB: three trivial fixes - futex: fix compat list traversal - CFS scheduler update - utrace update (#248532, #267161, #284311) - wireless driver update -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Sep 21 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - Linux 2.6.22.7 * Fri Sep 21 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - Build dcdbas and dell_rbu modules on i586 (#216304) * Thu Sep 20 2007 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - Enable tcrypt module for crypto testing. * Tue Sep 18 2007 John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> - Update bits from wireless-2.6 and wireless-dev * Wed Sep 12 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - Linux 2.6.22.6 (official) - libata: add option to disable DMA on PATA devices - libata: fix DMA on ATAPI devices with it821x (#242229) - libata: fix cable detection on pata_via - fix vmware's broken SCSI device emulation (#241935) - fix init of huawei 220 modem (#253096) - LVM: fix hang and lockups during snapshot (#269541) - net: fix oops with zero-length packet (#253290) - USB: three trivial fixes - futex: fix compat list traversal * Wed Sep 12 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - update CFS scheduler * Tue Sep 11 2007 Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> - utrace update (#248532, #267161, #284311) * Thu Aug 30 2007 John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> - Update bits from wireless-2.6 and wireless-dev * Thu Aug 30 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - Linux 2.6.22.6-rc1 * Wed Aug 29 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - enable the i82365 ISA PCMCIA driver - CFS scheduler bugfix * Wed Aug 29 2007 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - Fix time distortion in pm_trace (bz 250238) * Wed Aug 29 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - remove IRDA quirk for SMC controllers (#260481) * Wed Aug 29 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - CFS scheduler v20.5 - disable 64-bit DMA for atl1 network adapter * Fri Aug 24 2007 John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> - Update wireless-dev bits (mac80211, rt2x00, b43, ssb) - Add patch to keep old firmware format for b43 - Add at76_usb driver * Fri Aug 24 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - CFS scheduler v20.3 * Fri Aug 24 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - V4L/DVB: fix airstar hd5000 tuner * Fri Aug 24 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - fix 3ware 9000 controller DMA fallback (#251729) * Thu Aug 23 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - Linux 2.6.22.5 - CFS scheduler v20.2 - fix Pegasos PS/2 port detection * Wed Aug 22 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> - 2.6.22.5-rc1 - un-revert genirq changes - add new genirq fixes from upstream - ALSA: fix ad1988 spdif output - ALSA: mutiple stac92xx codec fixes - libata: fix pata_via driver on ppc pegasos platform * 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-2007-4573 http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-200... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated packages: 839a2c89fa889ea161925ebed760b65dd7c0203d kernel-doc-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.noarch.rpm de6fb353dda8d27260e1778aa9fe080af914900e kernel-headers-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i386.rpm 05d809317dfa483163a846f2f06eaf716dba54ad kernel-PAE-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i686.rpm 73d65210e0aa3f05379b6d991a9801e032525fa6 kernel-PAE-debug-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i686.rpm 3fe7077f88b47a915669a1eb388b0a21fd80f235 kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i686.rpm 4f8992092a0d5075d8f66f425f903354bea6d09b kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i686.rpm a303515ae16fa847a24b65101a7903059b757268 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i686.rpm 4c8153e7c38f61d4cf251e4cda39767e0773a202 kernel-PAE-debug-devel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i686.rpm 3420d59336172c7e489ebb11b830471a96ec8c32 kernel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i686.rpm 56ca0006755b8630c148a738290a78633fc9f6d0 kernel-PAE-debug-debuginfo-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i686.rpm 59885ec00e356e7cc0434871c4e728225c2aa1ea kernel-PAE-debuginfo-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i686.rpm e93021f2e2026d0a892ce086854df7b2ddd71fdc kernel-debug-devel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i686.rpm 551ae9b0627ca7a778f93b6b7663da4707952887 kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i686.rpm ac078b54a159e97f6eba05ac6ec6a1cec990ab39 kernel-devel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i686.rpm d12be20a518e734422569534128e978e970187f8 kernel-debug-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i686.rpm 09c13881593f7f0fd1e9332a85153a427c4c06ea kernel-kdump-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.ppc64.rpm dc3b14be3a1ecde06890e11a84c45fda3847dfab kernel-kdump-debuginfo-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.ppc64.rpm 00c0dc41bd41b509962e46929234d87716548063 kernel-headers-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.ppc64.rpm 6037cacc541ec598eb6e84d3e5cce1f96d24e174 kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.ppc64.rpm fc1876b23483de452e3f1d6b4421d4aba2029570 kernel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.ppc64.rpm 00eb0bab014192ab2363953c3aa90baa1d6999b5 kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.ppc64.rpm e262ddc6e1e4d42b3078c8190811cfc62201b6e0 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.ppc64.rpm 9de1e56d5fc7d090b3b8e9d07c69add832595267 kernel-devel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.ppc64.rpm 37c53e64066598499d54e1993385b493c95fb283 kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i586.rpm a220523fda05cc2af10bfedf30ef84b83549581f kernel-debuginfo-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i586.rpm 6061a58b331b02a95e78f98da377fc87aebc81a8 kernel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i586.rpm 8da378581eba8be4e6e75415238bcddbd833460b kernel-devel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.i586.rpm f331b8381dfa9bf86f2150f9a3f2a8dbc8c62de4 kernel-devel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.x86_64.rpm 01c84f2f7b679076348534a6c2e574b6f8fecefe kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.x86_64.rpm 3a0e0fbf9dc7941bae28c31546ceb2ca3b06b0bc kernel-debuginfo-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.x86_64.rpm af6d0c3cb26128465326b25a91452484771cb244 kernel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.x86_64.rpm e813d4ad5d8996c6b233d9db67769b26dda503d7 kernel-debug-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.x86_64.rpm 98bea7527290153a090dd510fc09bc0d1a01b6db kernel-debug-devel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.x86_64.rpm b0c297dc3c74111e7033a05698bfe0838ce65a78 kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.x86_64.rpm 11ab750d65df289467497e283d398d0149aba481 kernel-headers-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.x86_64.rpm e9dc2f2fe24eb17badb684f1ae5e18fbbca32ff9 kernel-smp-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.ppc.rpm 9e4da3ba6e6b316a3cde3c63b4d2169c81ba95ff kernel-headers-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.ppc.rpm f46f8d1fd8aa33300de9f76ae9f3f49049e62ff3 kernel-smp-debuginfo-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.ppc.rpm 493637d66df0a667a444d0ee5367864dd3207656 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.ppc.rpm 12d2d9f25d25c1c6d913ab620a84d773e2e37e69 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.ppc.rpm f471cd86891a128617a8ccc9de79d40e13540db2 kernel-devel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.ppc.rpm 6fb272857d982d24d3452f77a448a17e8bea521c kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.ppc.rpm 753641e0248e7c5939cabf09f9c39db92647e7fc kernel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.ppc.rpm 8834424ecd2d3c3fddf855767a65e51b970a065d kernel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.src.rpm This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update kernel' 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...