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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-1787
2010-02-12 03:55:35
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Name : kernel
Product : Fedora 12
Version : 2.6.31.12
Release : 174.2.19.fc12
URL :
http://www.kernel.org/
Summary : The Linux kernel
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.
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Update Information:
Kernel security update. Bugs fixed: #563091 #510823 #559100 #533087
CVE-2010-0307 CVE-2010-0410 CVE-2010-0415 CVE-2009-4536 CVE-2009-4537
CVE-2009-4538
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Feb 10 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> 2.6.31.12-174.2.19
- fix-race-in-tty_fasync_properly.patch: fix problems caused by the fix
for bug #559100
* Tue Feb 9 2010 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> 2.6.31.12-174.2.18
- sparc stack alignment patch from davem
* Tue Feb 9 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> 2.6.31.12-174.2.17
- ext4-fix-accounting-of-reserved-metadata-blocks.patch: fixes typo in
ext4-fix-dq_claim_space.patch
- Make the warning about quote reservations WARN_ONCE since we still
don't have all the fixes for this problem.
* Tue Feb 9 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> 2.6.31.12-174.2.16
- Fix the list of kernel symbols to search for when building the list
of block devices (copied the list from the 2.6.32 kernel.)
* Tue Feb 9 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> 2.6.31.12-174.2.15
- futex-handle-user-space-corruption-gracefully.patch: Fix oops in
the PI futex code. (rhbz#563091)
* Sun Feb 7 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
- ext4-fix-dq_claim_space.patch: try to fix the quota WARN_ON that's currently
spamming kerneloops for reals.
* Sun Feb 7 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> 2.6.31.12-174.2.13
- xfs: xfs_swap_extents needs to handle dynamic fork offsets (rhbz#510823)
from sandeen.
* Sat Feb 6 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> 2.6.31.12-174.2.12
- Only print warning message about quota reservations once, to prevent
filling people's logs until this is fixed.
* Sat Feb 6 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> 2.6.31.12-174.2.11
- fix-crash-with-sys_move_pages.patch: sys_move_pages doesn't bounds
check the node properly.
* Sat Feb 6 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> 2.6.31.12-174.2.10
- CVE-2010-0410 kernel: OOM/crash in drivers/connector
* Sat Feb 6 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> 2.6.31.12-174.2.9
- kernel: tty->pgrp races (#559100)
* Sat Feb 6 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> 2.6.31.12-174.2.8
- CVE-2009-4537 kernel: r8169 issue reported at 26c3
(fix taken from Red Hat/CentOS 5.4)
* Sat Feb 6 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> 2.6.31.12-174.2.7
- CVE-2009-4536 kernel: e1000 issue reported at 26c3
- CVE-2009-4538 kernel: e1000e frame fragment issue
* Sat Feb 6 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> 2.6.31.12-174.2.6
- CVE-2010-0307 kernel: DoS on x86_64
* Wed Feb 3 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
- prevent-runtime-conntrack-changes.patch: fix another conntrack bug
identified by jcm.
* Wed Feb 3 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
- fix-conntrack-bug-with-namespaces.patch (rhbz#533087) fix for kvm
crash.
* Mon Jan 18 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> 2.6.31.12-174.2.3
- Linux stable 2.6.31.12
- CVE-2010-0006 kernel: ipv6: skb_dst() can be NULL in ipv6_hop_jumbo()
(rhbz#555217)
* Fri Jan 15 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> 2.6.31.12-174.2.2.rc1
- Linux 2.6.31.12-rc1
* Wed Jan 6 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> 2.6.31.9-174.2.1
- Remove obsolete config options (generated .config files are
unchanged.)
* Mon Dec 21 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> 2.6.31.9-174
- revert rv410 fix broke some things
* Mon Dec 21 2009 Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com> 2.6.31.9-173
- nouveau: fix dim panel issues on certain laptops (rh#547554)
- nouveau: fix some issues when running without ctxprogs
- nouveau: fix error handling in init paths
- nouveau: add vga arbitration hooks
- nouveau: fix nv04 sw methods
* Fri Dec 18 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> 2.6.31.9-172
- stable update 2.6.31.9
* Thu Dec 17 2009 Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com> 2.6.31.8-171
- drm-nouveau.patch: add support for GF7100 (NV63)
* Wed Dec 16 2009 Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com>
- drm-edid-9340d8cf.patch: Sync DRM EDID with Linus master.
- drm-conservative-fallback-modes.patch, drm-edid-retry.patch,
drm-edid-header-fixup.patch, drm-default-mode.patch: Drop, merged into
the above.
* Mon Dec 14 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> 2.6.31.8-169
- 2.6.31.8
* Thu Dec 10 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
- ipv4-fix-null-ptr-deref-in-ip_fragment.patch: upstream.
- nuke highmem patches now in stable.
- crypto-via-padlock-fix-nano-aes.patch: upstream.
- fix up drm-next-$sha.patch
* Wed Dec 9 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-167
- Linux 2.6.31.7
- NOTE: drm patch still needs fixing.
* Wed Dec 9 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-166
- ext4-fix-insufficient-checks-in-EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT.patch: CVE-2009-4131
fix insufficient permission checking which could result in arbitrary
data corruption by a local unprivileged user.
* Tue Dec 8 2009 Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-165
- nfsd: Updated to latest pseudo root code fixing rhbz# 538609
* Mon Dec 7 2009 Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-164
- nouveau: fix NV17 breakage caused by NVA8 fixes
- nouveau: use ratelimit for GPU error message
* Fri Dec 4 2009 Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-163
- nouveau: reduce debug level of some warning messages (rh#543883)
- nouveau: modesetting fixes on nva5/nva8
- nouveau: suspend/resume fixes on nva5/nva8 (bios opcode 0x8d)
- nouveau: cleanup chipset/arch handling, fail init on unknown chipsets
- nouveau: fix failure to detect some outputs when dcb table is odd
- nouveau: eliminate unnecessary cursor state changes on nv50
* Thu Dec 3 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-162
- ipv4-fix-null-ptr-deref-in-ip_fragment.patch: null ptr deref
bug fix.
* Thu Dec 3 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-161
- rv410 LVDS on resume test fix from AMD (#541562)
* Wed Dec 2 2009 John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-160
- ath9k: add fixes suggested by upstream maintainer
* Wed Dec 2 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-159
- drm-radeon-misc-fixes.patch: r400 LVDS, r600 digital dpms, cursor fix, tv property
* Wed Dec 2 2009 Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-158
- nouveau: more complete lvds script selection on >=G80 (rh#522690, rh#529859)
- nouveau: more complete tmds script selection on >=G80 (rh#537853)
- nouveau: TV detection fixes
* Tue Dec 1 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-157
- div/0 fix harder (#540593) - also ignore unposted GPUs with no BIOS
* Tue Dec 1 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-156
- drm-next: fixes LVDS resume on r4xx, div/0 on no bios (#540593)
lockup on tv-out only startup.
* Mon Nov 30 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
- drm-i915-fix-sync-to-vbl-when-vga-is-off.patch: add (rhbz#541670)
* Sun Nov 29 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
- Drop linux-2.6-sysrq-c.patch, made consistent upstream.
* Fri Nov 27 2009 Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-153
- add device name to lirc_zilog, fixes issues w/multiple target devices
- add lirc_imon pure input mode support for onboard decode devices
* Thu Nov 26 2009 David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> 2.6.31.6-152
- Fix intel_tv_mode_set oops (#540218)
* Thu Nov 26 2009 David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> 2.6.31.6-151
- VT-d: Work around yet more HP BIOS brokenness (#536675)
* Wed Nov 25 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
- dlm: fix connection close handling.
Fix by lmb, requested by fabio.
* Wed Nov 25 2009 David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> 2.6.31.6-149
- VT-d: Work around more HP BIOS brokenness.
* Tue Nov 24 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-148
- radeon: flush HDP cache on rendering wait - fixes r600 rendercheck failure
* Mon Nov 23 2009 Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com>
- drm-default-mode.patch: Default to 1024x768 to match UMS. (#538761)
* Mon Nov 23 2009 Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-146
- Fix oops in x86-32 kernel's iret handling for bogus user %cs. (#540580)
* Sat Nov 21 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
- Fix up ssp' highmem fixes with fixes for arm & ppc.
* Fri Nov 20 2009 Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-144
- VT-d: another fallback for another BIOS bug (#524808)
* Thu Nov 19 2009 Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-142
- Oops, add new patch to spec file
* Thu Nov 19 2009 Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-141
- Lower debug level of fbcon handover messages (rh#538526)
* Thu Nov 19 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-140
- drm-next-44c83571.patch: oops pulled the wrong tree into my f12 tree
* Thu Nov 19 2009 Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-139
- nouveau: s/r fixes on chipsets using bios opcode 0x87
- nouveau: fixes to bios opcode 0x8e
- nouveau: hopefully fix nv1x context switching issues (rh#526577)
- nouveau: support for NVA5 (GeForce G220)
- nouveau: fixes for NVAA support
* Thu Nov 19 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-138
- drm-next-d56672a9.patch: fix some rn50 cloning issues
* Wed Nov 18 2009 David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> 2.6.31.6-137
- Actually force the IOMMU not to be used when we detect the HP/Acer bug.
* Tue Nov 17 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-136
- ACPI embedded controller fixes from Fedora 11.
* Tue Nov 17 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-135
- Scheduler fixes and latency tuning patches from F-11.
* Tue Nov 17 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-134
- glad to see edid retry patch was compiled.
* Tue Nov 17 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-133
- drm-next-984d1f3c.patch: rebase with upstream fixes - drop all merged
* Thu Nov 12 2009 Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com>
- Actually apply the EDID retry patch
- drm-edid-header-fixup.patch: Fix up some broken EDID headers (#534120)
* Thu Nov 12 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-130
- Use ApplyOptionalPatch for v4l and firewire updates.
- Drop unused v4l ABI fix.
* Thu Nov 12 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-129
- Linux 2.6.31.6
- Drop merged patches:
linux-2.6-iwlwifi-reduce-noise-when-skb-allocation-fails.patch
linux-2.6-libertas-crash.patch
pci-increase-alignment-to-make-more-space.patch
acpi-revert-attach-device-to-handle-early.patch
ahci-revert-restore-sb600-sata-controller-64-bit-dma.patch
acpi-pci-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-acpi-get-pci-dev.patch
af_unix-fix-deadlock-connecting-to-shutdown-socket.patch
keys-get_instantiation_keyring-should-inc-the-keyring-refcount.patch
netlink-fix-typo-in-initialization.patch
fs-pipe-null-ptr-deref-fix.patch
* Wed Nov 11 2009 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com> 2.6.31.5-128
- Fix KSM for i686 users. (#532215)
- Add KSM fixes from 2.6.32
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #563091 - kernel: futex: Handle user space corruption gracefully
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563091
[ 2 ] Bug #561682 - CVE-2010-0410 kernel: OOM/crash in drivers/connector
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561682
[ 3 ] Bug #562582 - CVE-2010-0415 kernel: sys_move_pages infoleak
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=562582
[ 4 ] Bug #559100 - kernel: tty->pgrp races
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559100
[ 5 ] Bug #552126 - CVE-2009-4536 kernel: e1000 issue reported at 26c3
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552126
[ 6 ] Bug #550907 - CVE-2009-4537 kernel: r8169 issue reported at 26c3
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550907
[ 7 ] Bug #551214 - CVE-2009-4538 kernel: e1000e frame fragment issue
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551214
[ 8 ] Bug #560547 - CVE-2010-0307 kernel: DoS on x86_64
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=560547
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