[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: kernel-2.6.31.6-162.fc12

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-12825
2009-12-07 06:17:34
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Name        : kernel
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 2.6.31.6
Release     : 162.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:

CVE-2009-1298 null ptr deref in ipv4 ip_frag_reasm.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Dec  3 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at 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 at redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-161
- rv410 LVDS on resume test fix from AMD (#541562)
* Wed Dec  2 2009 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-160
- ath9k: add fixes suggested by upstream maintainer
* Wed Dec  2 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at redhat.com>
- drm-i915-fix-sync-to-vbl-when-vga-is-off.patch: add (rhbz#541670)
* Sun Nov 29 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com>
- Drop linux-2.6-sysrq-c.patch, made consistent upstream.
* Fri Nov 27 2009 Jarod Wilson <jarod at 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 at intel.com> 2.6.31.6-152
- Fix intel_tv_mode_set oops (#540218)
* Thu Nov 26 2009 David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse at intel.com> 2.6.31.6-151
- VT-d: Work around yet more HP BIOS brokenness (#536675)
* Wed Nov 25 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com>
- dlm: fix connection close handling.
  Fix by lmb, requested by fabio.
* Wed Nov 25 2009 David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse at intel.com> 2.6.31.6-149
- VT-d: Work around more HP BIOS brokenness.
* Tue Nov 24 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied at 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 at redhat.com>
- drm-default-mode.patch: Default to 1024x768 to match UMS. (#538761)
* Mon Nov 23 2009 Roland McGrath <roland at 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 at redhat.com>
- Fix up ssp' highmem fixes with fixes for arm & ppc.
* Fri Nov 20 2009 Chris Wright <chrisw at redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-144
- VT-d: another fallback for another BIOS bug (#524808)
* Thu Nov 19 2009 Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-142
- Oops, add new patch to spec file
* Thu Nov 19 2009 Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-141
- Lower debug level of fbcon handover messages (rh#538526)
* Thu Nov 19 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied at 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 at 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 at redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-138
- drm-next-d56672a9.patch: fix some rn50 cloning issues
* Wed Nov 18 2009 David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse at 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 at redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-136
- ACPI embedded controller fixes from Fedora 11.
* Tue Nov 17 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-135
- Scheduler fixes and latency tuning patches from F-11.
* Tue Nov 17 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> 2.6.31.6-134
- glad to see edid retry patch was compiled.
* Tue Nov 17 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 #544144 - CVE-2009-1298 kernel: ip_frag_reasm() NULL pointer dereference
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544144
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