--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-313 2005-04-11 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : kernel Version : 2.6.11 Release : 1.14_FC3 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. This update rebases the kernel to the latest upstream stable release, which fixes a number of security issues. Notably: - CAN-2005-0210 : dst leak - CAN-2005-0384 : ppp dos - CAN-2005-0531 : Sign handling issues. - CAN-2005-0400 : EXT2 information leak. - CAN-2005-0449 : Remote oops. - CAN-2005-0736 : Epoll overflow - CAN-2005-0749 : ELF loader may kfree wrong memory. - CAN-2005-0750 : Missing range checking in bluetooth - CAN-2005-0767 : drm race in radeon - CAN-2005-0815 : Corrupt isofs images could cause oops Additionally, a large number of improvements have come from the 2.6.10 -> 2.6.11 transition. This update requires you are running the latest udev package, and also (if you are using SELinux) the latest selinux policy packages. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Thu Apr 7 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Update to 2.6.11.7 - Set CFQ as default elevator again. * Tue Apr 5 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Disable slab debug. - Re-add the pwc driver. (#152593) * Wed Mar 30 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - x86_64: Only free PMDs and PUDs after other CPUs have been flushed * Sat Mar 26 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Update to 2.6.11.6 * Tue Mar 22 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Fix up several calls to memset with swapped arguments. * Sat Mar 19 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Update to 2.6.11.5 * Fri Mar 18 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Kjournald oops race. (#146344) * Tue Mar 15 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Update to 2.6.11.4 * Thu Mar 10 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Update to 2.6.11.2 - Reenable advansys driver for x86 * Fri Mar 4 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Fix up ACPI vs keyboard controller problem. - Fix up Altivec usage on PPC/PPC64. * Fri Mar 4 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Finger the programs that try to read from /dev/mem. - Improve spinlock debugging a little. * Wed Mar 2 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.6.11 --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/ d0b678c185daabc58241bc43d785cdfd SRPMS/kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.src.rpm 6fa5527e6cd9bda5672b8c994d4e10b8 x86_64/kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.x86_64.rpm 1f2742b6a3c0ca60087fb16adb9dc624 x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.x86_64.rpm ae6e7f41cd578e7e559a64a2c380351d x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.x86_64.rpm e26c7fe37faba562b59ad303a3206a9c x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.noarch.rpm b44d799286b3d66a6e2f736c95c0ae87 i386/kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.i586.rpm 55bb6d57855699ddbbd458a065869bba i386/kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.i586.rpm 14263ebfb286ef9db0a198dd56a23dcb i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.i586.rpm b47066757d55cb37756d1b70541bc149 i386/kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.i686.rpm 335f1a54ecb63adca6789bbe707fa056 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.i686.rpm 8bc3daa419ea629bcf6f73f884d4f997 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.i686.rpm e26c7fe37faba562b59ad303a3206a9c i386/kernel-doc-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.noarch.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
