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Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-0952 (kernel)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: kernel-3.7.2-204.fc18
Date:  Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:44:01 +0000
Message-ID:  <20130118204400.D373221605@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-0952 2013-01-18 19:35:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : kernel Product : Fedora 18 Version : 3.7.2 Release : 204.fc18 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: This update contains a security fix for users running 32bit PVOPS xen guests (CVE-2013-0190) and a number of smaller fixes from the stable queue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Jan 16 2013 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com> 3.7.2-204 - Fix for CVE-2013-0190 xen corruption with 32bit pvops (rhbz 896051 896038) * Wed Jan 16 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - Add patch from Stanislaw Gruszka to fix iwlegacy IBSS cleanup (rhbz 886946) * Tue Jan 15 2013 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com> 3.7.2-203 - Turn off Intel IOMMU by default - Stable queue from 3.7.3 with many relevant fixes * Tue Jan 15 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - Enable CONFIG_DVB_USB_V2 (rhbz 895460) * Mon Jan 14 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - Enable Orinoco drivers in kernel-modules-extra (rhbz 894069) * Fri Jan 11 2013 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com> 3.7.1-1 - Linux v3.7.2 - Enable Intel IOMMU by default * Thu Jan 10 2013 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - Add audit-libs-devel to perf build-deps to enable trace command. (rhbz 892893) * Tue Jan 8 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - Add patch to fix shutdown on some machines (rhbz 890547) * Mon Jan 7 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - Patch to fix efivarfs underflow from Lingzhu Xiang (rhbz 888163) * Sun Jan 6 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - Fix version.h include due to UAPI change in 3.7 (rhbz 892373) * Fri Jan 4 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - Fix oops on aoe module removal (rhbz 853064) * Thu Jan 3 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - 3.7.1-2 - Fixup secure boot patchset for 3.7 rebase - Package bash completion script for perf * Thu Jan 3 2013 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - Rebase to 3.7.1 * Wed Jan 2 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - Fix autofs issue in 3.6 (rhbz 874372) - BR the hostname package (rhbz 886113) * Mon Dec 17 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - 3.6.11-3 - Linux v3.6.11 * Mon Dec 17 2012 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> - disable gpiolib on vexpress * Mon Dec 17 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - Fix oops in sony-laptop setup (rhbz 873107) * Wed Dec 12 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - 3.6.10-5 - Fix infinite loop in efi signature parser - Don't error out if db doesn't exist -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #896038 - CVE-2013-0190 kernel: stack corruption in xen_failsafe_callback() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=896038 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-...


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