Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-3949 (kernel)
| From: | updates@fedoraproject.org | |
| To: | fedora-package-announce@redhat.com | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: kernel-2.6.25.3-18.fc9 | |
| Date: | Wed, 14 May 2008 22:15:01 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <200805142215.m4EMEXaT001099@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-3949 2008-05-14 21:05:12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : kernel Product : Fedora 9 Version : 2.6.25.3 Release : 18.fc9 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: Update to Linux kernel verion 2.6.25.1, 2.6.25.2, 2.6.25.3: 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... Security fixes: CVE-2008-1669 (2.6.25.2) - SMP ordering hole in fcntl_setlk() CVE-2008-2136 (2.6.25.3) - SIT exploitable remote memory leak CVE-2008-1375, CVE-2008-1675 were fixed in 2.6.25-12.fc9 and are available in GA version of kernel package shipped in Fedora 9. Bugs fixed: CIFS: fix slashes in path names to have proper format (#443681) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon May 12 2008 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> 2.6.25.3-18 - CIFS: fix UNC path prefix to have the correct slash (#443681) * Mon May 12 2008 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> 2.6.25.3-17 - Linux 2.6.25.3 Drop patches merged in 2.6.25.3: linux-2.6.25-sparc64-mmap_check_fix.patch linux-2.6-md-fix-oops-in-rdev_attr_store.patch * Wed May 7 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 2.6.25.2-16 - Fix sparc64 kernel crash in mmap_check (Dave Miller) * Wed May 7 2008 Kyle McMartin <kmcmartin@redhat.com> 2.6.25.2-15 - Linux 2.6.25.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #443433 - CVE-2008-1669 kernel: add rcu_read_lock() to fcheck() in both dnotify, locks.c and fix fcntl store/load race in locks.c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443433 [ 2 ] Bug #446031 - CVE-2008-2136 kernel: sit: exploitable remote memory leak https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446031 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...