[SECURITY] Fedora Core 5 Update: kernel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sat Jul 15 00:57:58 UTC 2006


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-806
2006-07-14
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Product     : Fedora Core 5
Name        : kernel
Version     : 2.6.17
Release     : 1.2157_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.

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Update Information:

Rebase to latest upstream 2.6.17.4 -stable release, which
fixes a security issue which could result in local
priveledge escalation.

More details at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17.4

In addition, an optimisation was performed to use
significantly less memory for several heavily used kernel
data structures. 
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* Tue Jul 11 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- 2.6.17.4
- Disable split pagetable lock
* Sat Jul  8 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela at redhat.com>
- 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 <davej at redhat.com>
- 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 <quintela at redhat.com>
- 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 <davej at redhat.com>
- 2.6.17.3
- 2.6.17.2
- Fix the ALSA list_add bug.
* Mon Jun 26 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Enable fake PCI hotplug driver. (#190437)
- Enable gameport/joystick on i586 builds. (#196581)
* Sat Jun 24 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Enable profiling for 586 kernels.
* Fri Jun 23 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Make 'quiet' work again.
* Tue Jun 20 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.17-1.2139_FC5]
- Rebuild with slab debug off.
* Tue Jun 20 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.17-1.2138_FC5]
- 2.6.17.1
* Sun Jun 18 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- 2.6.17
- Only print info about SMP alternatives on SMP kernels.
* Tue Jun  6 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.16-1.2133_FC5]
- Add a PPC64 kdump kernel.
* Mon Jun  5 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.16-1.2132_FC5]
- 2.6.16.20
* Thu Jun  1 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Reenable Xen builds.
* Tue May 30 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- 2.6.16.19
* Sun May 28 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Fix unresolved symbol. (#193333)
* Sat May 27 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Improve list corruption debugging patch.
* Fri May 26 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Remove xenU initrd's when kernel is removed.
* Fri May 26 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela at redhat.com>
- Remove ARCH=xen reminiscences on spec file

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This update can be downloaded from:
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/

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4c8239648b9adc43d9fc926f245a6c9d1d7fe1f2  i386/kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.i686.rpm
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10b55e67d8e7cb682227893d9ddc7d2850996bfa  i386/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2157_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/.
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