[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: kernel-3.7.2-204.fc18
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-0952
2013-01-18 19:35:00
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Name : kernel
Product : Fedora 18
Version : 3.7.2
Release : 204.fc18
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:
This update contains a security fix for users running 32bit PVOPS xen guests (CVE-2013-0190) and a number of smaller fixes from the stable queue
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Jan 16 2013 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at redhat.com> 3.7.2-204
- Fix for CVE-2013-0190 xen corruption with 32bit pvops (rhbz 896051 896038)
* Wed Jan 16 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Add patch from Stanislaw Gruszka to fix iwlegacy IBSS cleanup (rhbz 886946)
* Tue Jan 15 2013 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at redhat.com> 3.7.2-203
- Turn off Intel IOMMU by default
- Stable queue from 3.7.3 with many relevant fixes
* Tue Jan 15 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Enable CONFIG_DVB_USB_V2 (rhbz 895460)
* Mon Jan 14 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Enable Orinoco drivers in kernel-modules-extra (rhbz 894069)
* Fri Jan 11 2013 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at redhat.com> 3.7.1-1
- Linux v3.7.2
- Enable Intel IOMMU by default
* Thu Jan 10 2013 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Add audit-libs-devel to perf build-deps to enable trace command. (rhbz 892893)
* Tue Jan 8 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Add patch to fix shutdown on some machines (rhbz 890547)
* Mon Jan 7 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Patch to fix efivarfs underflow from Lingzhu Xiang (rhbz 888163)
* Sun Jan 6 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Fix version.h include due to UAPI change in 3.7 (rhbz 892373)
* Fri Jan 4 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Fix oops on aoe module removal (rhbz 853064)
* Thu Jan 3 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> - 3.7.1-2
- Fixup secure boot patchset for 3.7 rebase
- Package bash completion script for perf
* Thu Jan 3 2013 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Rebase to 3.7.1
* Wed Jan 2 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Fix autofs issue in 3.6 (rhbz 874372)
- BR the hostname package (rhbz 886113)
* Mon Dec 17 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> - 3.6.11-3
- Linux v3.6.11
* Mon Dec 17 2012 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us>
- disable gpiolib on vexpress
* Mon Dec 17 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Fix oops in sony-laptop setup (rhbz 873107)
* Wed Dec 12 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> - 3.6.10-5
- Fix infinite loop in efi signature parser
- Don't error out if db doesn't exist
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #896038 - CVE-2013-0190 kernel: stack corruption in xen_failsafe_callback()
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=896038
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update kernel' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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