--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2006-1470 2006-12-18 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Product : Fedora Core 5 Name : kernel Version : 2.6.18 Release : 1.2257.fc5 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: This update rebases to 2.6.18.6rc2, which fixes the following security bugs: bridge: fix possible overflow in get_fdb_entries (CVE-2006-5751) Bluetooth: Add packet size checks for CAPI messages (CVE-2006-6106) In addition, a number of non-security related bugs have been fixed. Complete changelogs are available at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18.4 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18.5 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18.6 Additional Fedora specific changes detailed below. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Fri Dec 15 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 2.6.18.6rc2 * Wed Dec 13 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - squashfs robustness fixes from Phillip Lougher. - lower max CPU count for x86-64 to 64 CPUs. * Thu Dec 7 2006 Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - update xen to 2.6.18.5. - Fix bug 211986 on xen eventchn (Glaubert). * Tue Dec 5 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 2.6.18.5 - Disable auto-apic patch, it needs more thought. - Enable sonypi driver for 586 kernels. (#218434) * Tue Nov 21 2006 Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Update xen to 2.6.18.3. * linux-2.6.18-xen changeset: 36186:053cdad40903 * xen-3.0.3-testing changeset: 11774:52ae8dd4bc75 * linux-2.6-xen-3.0.3 changeset: 22949:4281f5246814 * Mon Nov 20 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 2.6.18.3 - Fix CIFS mount failure when domain not specified (#211753) - Avoid null pointer dereference in SATA Promise. (#199142) * Fri Nov 17 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fix up fallout from disabling utrace. * Fri Nov 17 2006 Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - merge xen missing bits from FC6 kernel. * Thu Nov 16 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fix up error handling in HFS. (MOKB-14-11-2006) * Thu Nov 16 2006 Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Update xen HV to 3.0.3_0 (cset 11774). - Update xen kernel patch to 3.0.3_0: * linux-2.6.18-xen changeset: 36182:c6ef4b521aef * xen-3.0.3-testing changeset: 11774:52ae8dd4bc75 * linux-2.6-xen-3.0.3 changeset: 22949:4281f5246814 * Thu Nov 16 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fix squashfs corruption bug. (#211237) - Drop experimental utrace from FC5. * Fri Nov 10 2006 Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - disable XEN_FRAMEBUFFER & XEN_KEYBOARD. * Fri Nov 10 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Xen grant table operations security fix. - Disable W1 (#195825) * Thu Nov 9 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Change HZ to 1000 for increased accuracy. (Except in Xen, where it stays at 250 for now). - TTY locking fixes. - splice : Must fully check for FIFO - Fix potential NULL dereference in sys_move_pages - ISO9660 __find_get_block_slow() denial of service CVE-2006-5757 - Fix up oops in cramfs when encountering corrupt images. - E1000 suspend/resume fixes. - Set CIFS preferred IO size. (#214607) * Mon Nov 6 2006 Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - New utrace patch: fix locking snafu crash on second engine attach. * Sun Nov 5 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Suspend/Resume fixes for forcedeth. (#187653) * Sat Nov 4 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 2.6.18.2 * Thu Nov 2 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Nuke broken lazy execshield xen patch. - Use heuristics to determine whether to enable lapic on i386. * Wed Nov 1 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 2.6.18.2-rc1 * Tue Oct 31 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fix UFS mounts on x86-64 (#209921) - Fix problem where USB storage isn't seen on reboot. (#212191) * Sun Oct 29 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - More ext3 robustness fixes. - Include more verbose BUG() data - x86_64: Fix up C3 timer latency. * Sat Oct 21 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Reenable NCPFS (#211325, #203663) - Netpoll fixes. (#199295) * Fri Oct 20 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fix autofs creating bad dentries in NFS mount. (#211206, #211207) - Fix softlockup with ips driver. (#196437) - Further exec-shield improvements. - Fix lockup with sky2 driver. (#202203) * Thu Oct 19 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Export copy_4K_page for ppc64 (#211410) - Attempt to fix CIFS bug (#211070) * Wed Oct 18 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fix up aic7xxx SBLKCTL register handling (#211251) - Disable SECMARK by default. (#211115) - Disable some extra debugging stuff that crept in. - Remove broken VIA quirk that prevented booting on some EPIAs (#211298) * Tue Oct 17 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Silence noisy boot-time messages. (#180606) - Workaround gcc bug with weak symbols (#191458) - Don't let speedstep-smi register on mobile Pentium4 (#204477) * Sat Oct 14 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fix jbd crash with 1KB block size filesystems. * Sat Oct 14 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2.6.18-1.2200.fc5] - 2.6.18.1 * Tue Oct 10 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - DWARF2 unwinder fixes. - Various lockdep fixes. - Sync various other patches from the FC6 kernel. * Sun Oct 1 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Drop the STICKY tag from acpi-cpufreq, it breaks suspend/resume. * Fri Sep 29 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Execshield improvements. (Bart Oldeman) - Disable PM_DEBUG * Thu Sep 28 2006 Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - utrace typo fix for x86-64 watchpoints (#207467) * Thu Sep 28 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fix ISAPNP messages on ppc32. (#207641) * Thu Sep 28 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Another day, another round of lockdep fixes. - Align kernel data segment to page boundary. (#206863) * Thu Sep 28 2006 Steven Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - New GFS2 patch * Thu Sep 28 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fix "kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:2789!" bug * Wed Sep 27 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - yet more lockdep fixes. - Fix a problem with XFS & the inode diet patches. - Fix rpc_pipefs umount oops - Enable alternative TCP congestion algorithms. * Tue Sep 26 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Enable serverworks IDE driver for x86-64. - More lockdep fixes. * Mon Sep 25 2006 Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Make kernel packages own initrd files * Mon Sep 25 2006 John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Add periodic work fix for bcm43xx driver * Sat Sep 23 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Disable dgrs driver. * Thu Sep 21 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - reiserfs: make sure all dentry refs are released before calling kill_block_super - Fix up some compile warnings * Thu Sep 21 2006 Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - re-enable xen. - update xen: * linux-2.6 changeset: 34294:dc1d277d06e0 * linux-2.6-xen-fedora changeset: 36184:47c098fdce14 * xen-unstable changeset: 11540:9837ff37e354 - update xen HV to changeset: 11540:9837ff37e354 - xen HV printf rate limit (rostedt). * Wed Sep 20 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 2.6.18 - i965 AGP suspend support. - AGP x8 fixes. * Tue Sep 19 2006 Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - updated xen configs to sync with rawhide ones (don't be afraid, xen0/xenU still around). - xen update. * linux-2.6 changeset: 34228:ea3369ba1e2c * linux-2.6-xen-fedora changeset: 36109:eefcfd07d102 * linux-2.6-xen changeset: 22905:d8ae02f7df05 * xen-unstable changeset: 11460:1ece34466781ec55f41fd29d53f6dafd208ba2fa * Mon Sep 18 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Bring back 586smp - Fix RTC lockdep bug. (Peter Zijlstra) * Mon Sep 18 2006 Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - xen HV update (cset 11470:2b8dc69744e3). * Sun Sep 17 2006 Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - xen update: * linux-2.6 changeset: 34228:ea3369ba1e2c * linux-2.6-xen-fedora changeset: 36107:47256dbb1583 * linux-2.6-xen changeset: 22905:d8ae02f7df05 * xen-unstable changeset: 11460:1ece34466781ec55f41fd29d53f6dafd208ba2fa * Sun Sep 17 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Rebase to 2.6.18rc7-git2 * Mon Sep 11 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2.6.17-1.2187_FC5] - Add quirk for Samsung mp3 player. (#198128) * Sun Sep 10 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fix up mismerge in USB storage driver. * Sat Sep 9 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 2.6.17.13 * Fri Sep 8 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 2.6.17.12 * Thu Aug 24 2006 Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - update to 2.6.17.11 * Tue Aug 22 2006 Bill Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - update to 2.6.17.10« * Tue Aug 15 2006 Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - linux-2.6-xen update * linux-2.6.17-xen cset changeset: 29033:e6adb54afb96 * linux-2.6-xen cset 22813:80c2ccf5c330 - s/xen_version/xen_hv_cset/ as Fedora. - update xen hv to cset 11061. * Mon Aug 7 2006 Mike Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Drop iscsi update patch. * Mon Aug 7 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 2.6.17.8 * Fri Aug 4 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fix split lock patch for 64bit. * Fri Aug 4 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2.6.17-1.2171_FC5] - 2.6.17.8rc1 * Wed Aug 2 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Readd patch to allow 460800 baud on 16C950 UARTs * Sat Jul 29 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Silence noisy SCSI ioctl. (#200638) * Fri Jul 28 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 2.6.17.7 * Thu Jul 27 2006 Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - reduce hypervisor stack use with -O2, this really fixes bug (#198932) * Tue Jul 25 2006 Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - disable debug=y hypervisor build option because of stack overflow (#198932) * Tue Jul 25 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Enable serio_raw (#199387) * Sun Jul 16 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Support up to 4GB in the 586 kernel again. * Sun Jul 16 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 2.6.17.6 * Fri Jul 14 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Reenable SMC NIC driver. * Tue Jul 11 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 2.6.17.4 - Disable split pagetable lock * Sat Jul 8 2006 Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - enable CONFIG_CRASH on xen kernels. - enable CONFIG_PCIDEV_BACKEND on xen kernels. - make BLKDEV_FRONTEND a module on xen kernels. - rebase with linux-2.6-xen-fedora 28918. - Update to xen-unstable HV cset 10508. - xen: credit scheduler is the default now. * Wed Jul 5 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Get rid of stack backtrace on panic, which in most cases actually caused a loss of info instead of a gain. * Tue Jul 4 2006 Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - new merge with xen upstream. - xen kernel don't require xen userland. - new xen kernel (same as rawhide one) with PAE support. - removed xen0-PAE & xenU-PAE (see xen kernel). * Fri Jun 30 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 2.6.17.3 - 2.6.17.2 - Fix the ALSA list_add bug. * Mon Jun 26 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Enable fake PCI hotplug driver. (#190437) - Enable gameport/joystick on i586 builds. (#196581) * Sat Jun 24 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Enable profiling for 586 kernels. * Fri Jun 23 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Make 'quiet' work again. * Tue Jun 20 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2.6.17-1.2139_FC5] - Rebuild with slab debug off. * Tue Jun 20 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2.6.17-1.2138_FC5] - 2.6.17.1 * Sun Jun 18 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 2.6.17 - Only print info about SMP alternatives on SMP kernels. * Tue Jun 6 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2.6.16-1.2133_FC5] - Add a PPC64 kdump kernel. * Mon Jun 5 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2.6.16-1.2132_FC5] - 2.6.16.20 * Thu Jun 1 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Reenable Xen builds. * Tue May 30 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 2.6.16.19 * Sun May 28 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fix unresolved symbol. (#193333) * Sat May 27 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Improve list corruption debugging patch. * Fri May 26 2006 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Remove xenU initrd's when kernel is removed. * Fri May 26 2006 Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Remove ARCH=xen reminiscences on spec file --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/ 7d65547d3976ad69fe8f88a0e5a7f31fc4e193d2 SRPMS/kernel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.src.rpm 7d65547d3976ad69fe8f88a0e5a7f31fc4e193d2 noarch/kernel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.src.rpm dcedb8e5e6302178db6b08c3980261c24398c3d2 ppc/kernel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.ppc.rpm 3b952abccf2ee28d861a4a8131bfb863e539070b ppc/kernel-smp-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.ppc.rpm 5a99bf0c0e77a7ae08c11174a5859f708a229213 ppc/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.ppc.rpm b7e16f24f566fa3c19a2a89339afb5de2dbe629a ppc/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.ppc.rpm 2a28272783d7b1dadf792dfea8293e20d74bf902 ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.ppc.rpm 2f9b5b6ed9d70f9fe7db317422505cb40ef47ce4 ppc/kernel-doc-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.noarch.rpm dc49866f0f4aa4af3c7903d11b2af3913142d6bd x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.x86_64.rpm 79f38fe968c49816051c5aed6115509da2f13a45 x86_64/kernel-kdump-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.x86_64.rpm d8b41551e39901bee2e3ef335d6d44bcab11ac87 x86_64/kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.x86_64.rpm f367995a6b24c8e1218ea9a7f00ce95c591101b6 x86_64/kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.x86_64.rpm 37701d021c778ca56db878903cb62ea98b4ecb2d x86_64/kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.x86_64.rpm ecd6bbe403e6d8117fc40dfa6dcaf406e8be42ae x86_64/kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.x86_64.rpm 6ad4ad495136ece33385297688330520d50f472e x86_64/kernel-xen0-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.x86_64.rpm 13df9a9044218813118c16f5915523c24eda1c78 x86_64/kernel-xen0-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.x86_64.rpm 8012c41aa13fbcf33a30f0820140bfdcd38f9e45 x86_64/kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.x86_64.rpm bed2e1d35e47fd874a4ffd8b89cd59332b2ce1bb x86_64/kernel-xenU-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.x86_64.rpm 9a72934f4c4c5b8b738276e20190460c29955118 x86_64/kernel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.x86_64.rpm 2f9b5b6ed9d70f9fe7db317422505cb40ef47ce4 x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.noarch.rpm 7e817ef4369405288e17f95029e148cc09d2933b i386/kernel-smp-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i586.rpm 7c8d7af761b7f00707e680441ca8de600dedb98e i386/kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i586.rpm 7bf8137bc453c91aaa106377b632f607fb5d2e5e i386/kernel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i586.rpm b8938b87558c278e51cd67e5ca489104807f8810 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i586.rpm 321efb15af1428518f165c980f69d656a163b7d4 i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i586.rpm 5cdf059b8f6f42847887061dba20057d01e8120c i386/kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm b78a651d0e4356e694ae6ab4c936a295eeac8756 i386/kernel-xen0-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm 217b6dae49d9aed4c53cd95e3444965c582cdba9 i386/kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm 805af7afd8abc7b21741af17ffd50eda814b9797 i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm 5af8bc6f9164efc548f41058ad72909c6bc239b3 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm 9d0d9f40c7c585f7c3cc543bad3b591a4c2c4ebb i386/kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm 4b278b82af45cd6477b8b8c97c06b45463fca01a i386/kernel-smp-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm f28438e3d20fe618db3f12beb37d4eea6d64f464 i386/kernel-kdump-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm 4222c75303242de7c673a2b7003049291f4c766e i386/kernel-xenU-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm 66106543dd5fee76953ef0912ea1760b547e96e2 i386/kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm 7bc3c9db610cbfb20b18936360b7ff309dff7863 i386/kernel-xen0-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm 04d4058598cfce70fecd69c24b2124a98230449b i386/kernel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm 4a754a8d084e74afefd73e47f6ae8f620670aa51 i386/kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm 2f9b5b6ed9d70f9fe7db317422505cb40ef47ce4 i386/kernel-doc-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.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-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce