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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-8824 (kernel)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-8824 2012-06-03 22:46:01 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : kernel Product : Fedora 17 Version : 3.4.0 Release : 1.fc17 URL : http://www.kernel.org/ Summary : The Linux kernel 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: The 3.4 kernel contains a large number of bug fixes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Sat Jun 2 2012 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com> 3.4.0-1 - Linux 3.4 - Stable queue updates * Wed May 30 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - CVE-2012-2390 huge pages: memory leak on mmap failure (rhbz 824352 824345) * Fri May 25 2012 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> - Don't manually customise tuners/frontends (rhbz 825203) * Thu May 24 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - CVE-2012-2372 mm: 32bit PAE pmd walk vs populate SMP race (rhbz 822821 822825) * Wed May 23 2012 Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com> - drm-i915-lvds-dual-channel.patch: Scrape dual-channel-ness for LVDS out of the VBT, rather than just making things up. (#819343) * Mon May 21 2012 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com> 3.3.7-1 - Linux 3.3.7 - Disable CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for 32bit builds. Turn back on for 3.4 * Fri May 18 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - Additional fixes for CVE-2011-4131 (rhbz 822874 822869) * Thu May 17 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - Fix rtlwifi async firmware load race condition (rhbz 822120) - Enable cpu_idle drivers for ppc64/pseries (requested by Ben Herrenschmidt) * Wed May 16 2012 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> - set arch for arm kernel to VEXPRESS allows v7 emulation - enable SMP everywhere but disable on kirkwood as its up only * Wed May 16 2012 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com> 3.3.6-3 - fix rtl8187: ->brightness_set can not sleep (rhbz 795176) * Wed May 16 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - Update the vgaarb patches to pick up a small switcheroo fix from airlied * Tue May 15 2012 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> - add patch to setup usb correctly on beagleboards - allows networking to work * Tue May 15 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - Fixup atl1c register programming (rhbz 749276) * Mon May 14 2012 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com> 3.3.6-1 - Linux 3.3.6 * Mon May 14 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - Enable DRM_VIA again per Adam Jackson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #824345 - CVE-2012-2390 kernel: huge pages: memory leak on mmap failure https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824345 [ 2 ] Bug #822821 - CVE-2012-2373 kernel: mm: read_pmd_atomic: 32bit PAE pmd walk vs pmd_populate SMP race condition https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=822821 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-... (Log in to post comments)
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