[SECURITY] Fedora Core 4 Update: kernel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed Jul 5 18:39:05 UTC 2006


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-769
2006-07-05
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Product     : Fedora Core 4
Name        : kernel
Version     : 2.6.17
Release     : 1.2141_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.

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Update Information:

An update to the latest upstream stable release (2.6.17.3),
which fixes a security issue with SCTP.

Further details:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17.3
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17.2

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* Fri Jun 30 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.17-1.2141_FC4]
- 2.6.17.3
* Fri Jun 30 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.17-1.2140_FC4]
- 2.6.17.2
- Fix up the alsa list_add bug.
* Mon Jun 26 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Fix up various stupidities incurred by the last big rebase.
  - Reenable SMP x86-64 builds.
  - Reenable SMBFS.
- Enable PCI fake hotplug driver.
- Enable gameport/joystick on i586 builds. (#196581)
* Sat Jun 24 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Enable profiling for 586 kernels.

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This update can be downloaded from:
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/

23d291e93aa7bd635370dc68c71c722f6670bc6b  SRPMS/kernel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.src.rpm
23d291e93aa7bd635370dc68c71c722f6670bc6b  noarch/kernel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.src.rpm
92469faa69c5cbe8778874bf18156cd529ddb03a  ppc/kernel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.ppc.rpm
b452d540c0c7c1bb16fb14036e05ecbc8ae52d52  ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.ppc.rpm
7eae8fd2dd195291a8b55c851e318e02d36e9b90  ppc/kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.ppc.rpm
5da4153b6c0199ef097c44e7ed4f6d853b251cd9  ppc/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.ppc.rpm
2d08c9b9bb4419e5943aa7db720899d321d358de  ppc/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.ppc.rpm
cb0b40f149e6d0c90fa5ebff907e9a265410d91f  ppc/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.noarch.rpm
33049845acabe96c7b716f473f4eb7d372e5be35  x86_64/kernel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.x86_64.rpm
06e798bc14a87d6a8ff6b106b59a74ed4c2d30d8  x86_64/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.x86_64.rpm
341d35967ce0504d1ca95629bab70ed1c627faa4  x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.x86_64.rpm
f5ee2c52459b68a49a1b2bccfd73159027796c55  x86_64/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.x86_64.rpm
39f7d7b054aae31b20b83de509217e7b2f8f2be8  x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.x86_64.rpm
cb0b40f149e6d0c90fa5ebff907e9a265410d91f  x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.noarch.rpm
a87fbfe3c547a2f17b070319fd144d40ff94ee9c  i386/kernel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.i586.rpm
1f922d8a461fbfe9098a2635c4aa73d830cc5802  i386/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.i586.rpm
96a9de63be8a0d55a09dcd98c3b89de43cc4ae8b  i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.i586.rpm
2ba4cd45e5d685e9b5af72e591a31e325e13d6ec  i386/kernel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.i686.rpm
f0b5b3ffc94a9d0833459f41b6e71bbf06940dc3  i386/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.i686.rpm
6acbe6a820209dd589c8f5772e856b64d136bf9d  i386/kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.i686.rpm
3a893e2ca491429161809ebd9203850473d6bdaf  i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.i686.rpm
f619c78679596f364562f5b54697291bc461aab6  i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.i686.rpm
cb0b40f149e6d0c90fa5ebff907e9a265410d91f  i386/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2141_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/.
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