--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Test Update Notification FEDORA-2006-801 2006-07-12 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 4 Name : kernel Version : 2.6.17 Release : 1.2142_FC4 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: Rebase to latest upstream 2.6.17.4 -stable release, which fixes a security issue which could result in local priveledge escalation. More details at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17.4 In addition, an optimisation was performed to use significantly less memory for several heavily used kernel data structures. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Tue Jul 11 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> [2.6.17-1.2142_FC4] - 2.6.17.4 - Disable split pagetable lock. * Wed Jul 5 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Get rid of stack backtrace on panic, which in most cases actually caused a loss of info instead of a gain. --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/4/ d14110f3f957b6ddf7ccd531b96f1aca4883176f SRPMS/kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.src.rpm d14110f3f957b6ddf7ccd531b96f1aca4883176f noarch/kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.src.rpm 2f308a2da24222ab6ea42f4f3f9cd34394ffc53a ppc/kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.ppc.rpm c6fa92eb0cf3954220c0fc4ef0cfdc1f7a7d020c ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.ppc.rpm fa3d29c982e3dba4da161ce1646cb4655b7b7145 ppc/kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.ppc.rpm 7b67bb4d13fd96168395a26118d3c4b0111f03e3 ppc/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.ppc.rpm 30146d790a2f21dc9bb662d5f05bad652e62e25f ppc/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.ppc.rpm 628a6dc5c1272558951b3182c27ff63addbb4026 ppc/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.noarch.rpm d922eb35c09603c06b274d37288fe0c7bca5b964 x86_64/kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.x86_64.rpm 50543c0d20bf87eab04b9e00f780c2babf7cf3ee x86_64/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.x86_64.rpm 60013e423bbab943ae2a872bd5fd4654e052b445 x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.x86_64.rpm a2b73d48d773031cc3e7674c9f01f388edbb7dc1 x86_64/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.x86_64.rpm ead7f4ddab25bdffb8e58e15c4ff75a0db3ece60 x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.x86_64.rpm 628a6dc5c1272558951b3182c27ff63addbb4026 x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.noarch.rpm c54805b3e2aea148be7500c24e689a5255a8dce7 i386/kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i586.rpm 8b10e5fa52e2a4f754dd7097a542514890d8ef6a i386/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i586.rpm 19ae1ab92d3f31bc14afde240a9a011bc6de4853 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i586.rpm 5427939c5906c9300fef18d345d9ef283e78335e i386/kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i686.rpm 1f1ce95d3efb9afd35e6e184d4bb8f3e45c48e79 i386/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i686.rpm 48e44e71872ffa756c1ebbc43a9d458f741d2a56 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i686.rpm 02db4b6f263493cbec0ef873742c726ed49a3b08 i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i686.rpm 2dd2a1a5ce43070f783b42f3616d605f449024c5 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i686.rpm 628a6dc5c1272558951b3182c27ff63addbb4026 i386/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.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-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list