--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Test Update Notification FEDORA-2005-379 2005-05-17 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : kernel Version : 2.6.11 Release : 1.27_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. Due to the collection of security fixes piling up, this is going to go out as an update in the next few days unless someone finds something catastrophically wrong with it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Tue May 17 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Remove the unused (and outdated) Xen patches from the FC3 tree. * Mon May 16 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Rebase to 2.6.11.10, (fixing CAN-2005-1264) * Thu May 12 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Rebase to 2.6.11.9, (fixing CAN-2005-1263) * Tue May 10 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Fix two bugs in x86-64 page fault handler. * Mon May 9 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Rebase to 2.6.11.8 | Fixes CAN-2005-1368 (local DoS in key lookup). (#156680) | Fixes CAN-2005-1369 (i2c alarms sysfs DoS). (#156683) - Merge IDE fixes from 2.6.11-ac7 - Add Conflicts for older IPW firmwares. - Fix conntrack leak with raw sockets. * Sun May 1 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Various firewire fixes backported from -mm. (#133798) (Thanks to Jody McIntyre for doing this) * Fri Apr 29 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - fix oops in aacraid open when using adaptec tools. (#148761) - Blacklist another brainless SCSI scanner. (#155457) * Thu Apr 21 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Fix up SCSI queue locking. (#155472) * Tue Apr 19 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - SCSI tape security: require CAP_ADMIN for SG_IO etc. (#155355) * Mon Apr 18 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Retry more aggressively during USB device initialization * Thu Apr 14 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Build DRM modular. (#154769) * Fri Apr 8 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Disable Longhaul driver (again). --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/3/ e14dcd5e8c520e6afe51b4d6f8317ebb SRPMS/kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.src.rpm 2b654539762a42e2a761ec65b5bc1c30 x86_64/kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.x86_64.rpm f34938e71d5b7e43247fe11d85bf3e67 x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.x86_64.rpm 0620f2eaa09eebafdc56e06f07f3c697 x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.x86_64.rpm a95d2fa3a36398a6a7247ef2e48070d0 x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.noarch.rpm 3a204dfa66c6e81d53c4668d8fa4c501 i386/kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i586.rpm a40fdcc57195f0607a39a6ff9988c980 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i586.rpm 0a4d7db03690e0ed7c165dc6c4f11c99 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i586.rpm 2f4a0c52eac96d13f0b31ec759693ac8 i386/kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i686.rpm 0fc7abe2226243524c656cae43367d67 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i686.rpm 8d3ef1f8020d3ede403c747c24e8d8e0 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i686.rpm a95d2fa3a36398a6a7247ef2e48070d0 i386/kernel-doc-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.noarch.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. You may need to edit your up2date channels configuration. Within /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources enable the following line: yum updates-testing http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/3/$ARCH ---------------------------------------------------------------------