Fedora alert FEDORA-2006-572 (kernel)
| From: | "Dave Jones" <davej@redhat.com> | |
| To: | fedora-package-announce@redhat.com | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora Core 5 Update: kernel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 | |
| Date: | Sun, 21 May 2006 18:24:37 -0400 |
--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2006-572 2006-05-21 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 5 Name : kernel Version : 2.6.16 Release : 1.2122_FC5 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: This update rebases to the latest upstream -stable release (2.6.16.17), where a number of security problems have been fixed, notably: SCTP: Validate the parameter length in HB-ACK chunk (CVE-2006-1857) SCTP: Respect the real chunk length when walking parameters (CVE-2006-1858) fs/locks.c: Fix lease_init (CVE-2006-1860) SCTP: Fix state table entries for chunks received in CLOSED state. (CVE-2006-2271) SCTP: Fix panic's when receiving fragmented SCTP control chunks. (CVE-2006-2272) SCTP: Prevent possible infinite recursion with multiple bundled DATA. (CVE-2006-2274) SCTP: Allow spillover of receive buffer to avoid deadlock. (CVE-2006-2275) Complete changelogs for the -stable releases can be found at 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... Fedora specific changes are detailed below. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Sun May 21 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> [2.6.16-1.2122_FC5] - Remove noisy 'syscall not implemented' message from x86-64. * Sun May 21 2006 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@redhat.com> [2.6.16-1.2120_FC5] - Avoid thermal shutdown on some G5 machines. - Make i386 two-minute delay on oops optional (oopsdelay= option) * Sat May 20 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> [2.6.16-1.2119_FC5] - 2.6.16.17 * Thu May 11 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> [2.6.16-1.2118_FC5] - merge with 3.0.2 xen (cset 9668) - add xen hypervisor to match it * Wed May 10 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - 2.6.16.16 * Tue May 9 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - 2.6.16.15 - Fix exec-shield default, which should fix a few programs that stopped running. * Sat May 6 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - Enable ATM in 586 kernels (#190202) --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/u... 4fe68cf42bf6d9ad8863af4d99d8689890cdfcae SRPMS/kernel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.src.rpm 4db29f3d875a956649529d9dfd151b7e3fcf137d ppc/kernel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.ppc.rpm e8e29ec54399633ee9f8ef83278d8b0c37f779e7 ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.ppc.rpm b5f5e7ac316534b61326d20054d142a7569afc11 ppc/kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.ppc.rpm 11774775f9d9650040cc37b9eb58b7de93439287 ppc/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.ppc.rpm 2750a6d26da25f533e7545d8b593c549daaf84ab ppc/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.ppc.rpm 546c8fe60124ccfc7f5f71775dcba13682211c87 ppc/kernel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.ppc64.rpm d5ecdb629169b2470460a378f5bab1c11fd17977 ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.ppc64.rpm 07694531537d930abffcf0fb26bd66dab55e5a1f ppc/kernel-doc-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.noarch.rpm e126023e951c5b53919fc1667bbde36a43f59302 x86_64/kernel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.x86_64.rpm f0d1bee946c55fa4286ea0e64dc67d109b5fb189 x86_64/kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.x86_64.rpm a18a612802d92ced6b9d303066b5fa749f018e6b x86_64/kernel-xen0-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.x86_64.rpm c1b1e7e8c552f980396ee77e2e7d49d85461fbbd x86_64/kernel-xen0-devel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.x86_64.rpm 60c711a011304ceeff250a286fbe6fff1e7e5be6 x86_64/kernel-xenU-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.x86_64.rpm 5f4451bc74b6955a49d887fb0a268f330d28fa01 x86_64/kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.x86_64.rpm 13a5814b8989db08d3c8cc23904491c4e769a6db x86_64/kernel-kdump-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.x86_64.rpm ccac4a7f0078112d53c8b9a7baf24dfc98badd19 x86_64/kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.x86_64.rpm 8dc2c328faa928fe07a5ad882524eb38195d8f9b x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.x86_64.rpm 07694531537d930abffcf0fb26bd66dab55e5a1f x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.noarch.rpm 6840bd27a134876e41995f3ebce9da69267b3fc4 i386/kernel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i586.rpm 71d734ee4305e302da6bcd8801dbd635806d13ff i386/kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i586.rpm e465479dded82deb1c41f4dde5b857e405d8ff89 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i586.rpm c72ff59bea1f0c3f693919e2db9668e37cae8012 i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i586.rpm dcbea3abebf270051d36db309e0d61a97dbdb193 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i586.rpm bb78a56acc9db08b6363955c49ff546f81b444e9 i386/kernel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm a2208f9d95c3ae0bf2ef85b41978ec4638c53232 i386/kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm 0450f47a92c1ab6c9ea87d5aaff9a36b43d42cf6 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm 4b4a282e5dc72ef9787449bd559edc82bddb7044 i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm c7375e2ea5de689fd93303f997a4823e7d1aaa08 i386/kernel-xen0-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm 8051dd5e5880065878ad990130384080908503f5 i386/kernel-xen0-devel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm e5b4a0a60cfc8ab1116b47060e9f285d5c0ed928 i386/kernel-xenU-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm 949bc92598b6df4d5663533c077e52b4f7dc7a9f i386/kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm 00f5f257b7cf32a5e9916e46daaef410de562178 i386/kernel-kdump-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm dd55afffcd8e6ad93770d9439a6beb4af451c1be i386/kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm 6b152c758ce31130ba5689bb6d47b5bd361d6f7b i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm 07694531537d930abffcf0fb26bd66dab55e5a1f i386/kernel-doc-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.noarch.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://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/. --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...