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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-1433 (kernel-xen-2.6)
| From: | updates@fedoraproject.org | |
| To: | fedora-package-announce@redhat.com | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: kernel-xen-2.6-2.6.21-2957.fc8 | |
| Date: | Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:48:35 -0700 | |
| Message-ID: | <200802130448.m1D4mX8A003831@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-1433 2008-02-13 04:08:37 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : kernel-xen-2.6 Product : Fedora 8 Version : 2.6.21 Release : 2957.fc8 URL : http://www.kernel.org/ 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: CVE-2008-0600 fix (bug #432517) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Feb 12 2008 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> - CVE-2008-0600 fix (bug #432517) * Sat Feb 2 2008 Daniel Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> - Really turn on pciback module for x86_64 * Fri Feb 1 2008 Daniel Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> - Turn on pciback module for PCI passthrough on x86_64 (rhbz #388041) * Mon Nov 19 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> - Re-add xen-hypervisor-abi provides. It was lost on the spec resync (problem detected on updates-testing) * Mon Nov 12 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> - Pull RPM spec changes from non-xen kernel - Enabled -debuginfo packages (bug #336351) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #432517 - Vulnerability to CVE-2008-0600 (vmsplice) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432517 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update kernel-xen-2.6' 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 http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...
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