--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-026 2005-01-13 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 2 Name : kernel Version : 2.6.10 Release : 1.9_FC2 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. CAN-2005-0001 Paul Starzetz from isec.pl found an exploitable hole in the x86 SMP page fault handler which could lead to privilege escalation. http://www.isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0022-pagefault.txt This update additionally fixes a random memory corruption issue present in the previous update, and in addition updates to the latest -ac collection of patches. A full changelog of the update vs the previous -ac8 based release is available at http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/13/219 --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Thu Jan 13 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Update to 2.6.10-ac9 - Fix slab corruption in ACPI video code. * Mon Jan 10 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Add another Lexar card reader to the whitelist. (#143600) - Package asm-m68k for asm-ppc includes. (don't ask). (#144604) --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/ ef61c4cc907d2f28d9073aafa62ace4c SRPMS/kernel-2.6.10-1.9_FC2.src.rpm 1a822614ed6fb852582f869e2c48d44c x86_64/kernel-2.6.10-1.9_FC2.x86_64.rpm d5f79b14b44ec831d1bd1cf95fea1a69 x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.9_FC2.x86_64.rpm 4e0ddb71d53e2fab550a9dd90297f75c x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.10-1.9_FC2.x86_64.rpm 8364bc9e28f0aced714d31eb203ca011 x86_64/kernel-sourcecode-2.6.10-1.9_FC2.noarch.rpm 370d410c882562d8715fb3c9d82471af x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.10-1.9_FC2.noarch.rpm a531f9718e0061a9e43cb2e9d9f32e90 i386/kernel-2.6.10-1.9_FC2.i586.rpm d2e9bd5a230e6e40db06b7c879fe383d i386/kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.9_FC2.i586.rpm 0be4bef6761c8a386bc14014286b7781 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.10-1.9_FC2.i586.rpm 06d956b7ba4e55a9716449d0365cafe5 i386/kernel-2.6.10-1.9_FC2.i686.rpm b952b3fe7324efa87a104b995a763b0b i386/kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.9_FC2.i686.rpm ed19c4f153f2c941e73bec51023dd59d i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.10-1.9_FC2.i686.rpm 8364bc9e28f0aced714d31eb203ca011 i386/kernel-sourcecode-2.6.10-1.9_FC2.noarch.rpm 370d410c882562d8715fb3c9d82471af i386/kernel-doc-2.6.10-1.9_FC2.noarch.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
