ELSA-2007-0774

ELSA-2007-0774 - Moderate: kernel security and bugfix update

Type:	SECURITY
Severity:	MODERATE
Release Date:	2007-09-05

Description

[2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1]
- fix entropy flag in bnx2 driver to generate entropy pool (John
Sobecki) [orabug 5931647]
- fix for nfs open call taking longer issue (Chuck Lever) orabug 5580407
bz [219412]
- fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc (Zach Brown) orabug 5486128
- fix per_cpu() api bug_on with rds (Zach Brown) orabug 5760648
- limit nr_requests in cfq io scheduler ( Jens Axboe) bz 234278 orabug
5899829

[2.6.9-55.0.6]
-revert: autofs4 fix for race between mount and expire [248126]

[2.6.9-55.0.4]
-revert: add missing audit_notify_watch() to removexattr
-autofs4: fix race between mount and expire (Ian Kent) [248126]

[2.6.9-55.0.3]
-Fix panic following reload of LSI Fusion driver (Chip Coldwell) [227451]
-Fix buffer overflow in capi debug functions (Anton Arapov) [243257]
{CVE-2007-1217}
-add missing audit_notify_watch() to removexattr (Alexander Viro) [248126]
-fix VM hangs by balancing inactive lists and setting better values for
dirty limits (Larry Woodman) [248141]
-nfs: add nordirplus option (Jeff Layton) [249848]
-ia64: fix vmalloc perfmon crash (Luming Yu) [250199] {CVE-2006-0558}
-fix stack randomization across suid/sgid exec (Ernie Petrides) [250200]

Related CVEs

CVE-2007-1217

CVE-2006-0558

Updated Packages

Release/Architecture	Filename	MD5sum	Superseded By Advisory
Oracle Linux 4 (i386)	kernel-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL.src.rpm	2384d3aed93ebe06b9e5992535d369c9	ELBA-2011-1796
	ocfs2-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL-1.2.5-6.src.rpm	b09548d773cdc59b55f6ba6ee12830c1	ELBA-2008-2004
	oracleasm-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL-2.0.3-2.src.rpm	3f5568e50b11538ddcf11af296318d2f	-
	kernel-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL.i686.rpm	495ecb7d61b0b754050cff159fe94112	ELBA-2011-1796
	kernel-devel-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL.i686.rpm	0d1369ef1a251b7388f633060e124825	ELBA-2011-1796
	kernel-doc-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm	21245a4ec6f7651383d6f0a9592fc23b	ELBA-2011-1796
	kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL.i686.rpm	c5c19846c0975ce2846d785e337a7286	ELBA-2011-1796
	kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL.i686.rpm	6d996f03db6d9f7e2e8e0d639b3dd5a9	ELBA-2011-1796
	kernel-smp-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL.i686.rpm	dfae641e81c81f9b30eac02e7f56ad0c	ELBA-2011-1796
	kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL.i686.rpm	640a79c2cef30ce0b768d67bfb273e62	ELBA-2011-1796
	kernel-xenU-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL.i686.rpm	b2886fbf6888d58f9aa39602f85386e4	ELBA-2011-1796
	kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL.i686.rpm	b6e641e196c6cc367e6f4066974f9196	ELBA-2011-1796
	ocfs2-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL-1.2.5-6.i686.rpm	c69556a8f68ea1551c58f7bbb9de4e5d	ELBA-2008-2004
	ocfs2-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.ELhugemem-1.2.5-6.i686.rpm	616c45c2c4684ec51562a2a261c09cf3	ELBA-2008-2004
	ocfs2-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.5-6.i686.rpm	2d5d0e33f80e30f74c7ef9082e1d19c5	ELBA-2008-2004
	oracleasm-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL-2.0.3-2.i686.rpm	8961a6f5e669d0be2da7792cf6080542	-
	oracleasm-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.ELhugemem-2.0.3-2.i686.rpm	7efa494f87d032010a5bb76e77e843e3	-
	oracleasm-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.3-2.i686.rpm	0953e9c30e002ec6d83e08965e5997cc	-
Oracle Linux 4 (x86_64)	kernel-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL.src.rpm	2384d3aed93ebe06b9e5992535d369c9	ELBA-2011-1796
	ocfs2-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL-1.2.5-6.src.rpm	b09548d773cdc59b55f6ba6ee12830c1	ELBA-2008-2004
	oracleasm-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL-2.0.3-2.src.rpm	3f5568e50b11538ddcf11af296318d2f	-
	kernel-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm	88ae38f1afe2ee7a52076f9c04cf0db8	ELBA-2011-1796
	kernel-devel-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm	e0f5de358895e0cd045e57a2da60504b	ELBA-2011-1796
	kernel-doc-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm	21245a4ec6f7651383d6f0a9592fc23b	ELBA-2011-1796
	kernel-smp-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm	7434f35602098068ce8c07c8997ebcee	ELBA-2011-1796
	kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm	bc46c67aabeeaa4823dd163222677268	ELBA-2011-1796
	kernel-xenU-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm	b03c63c7f316c7f66807959a073c6fcb	ELBA-2011-1796
	kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm	8af4398d2120b05e80c98990f1d13671	ELBA-2011-1796
	ocfs2-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL-1.2.5-6.x86_64.rpm	391cd6c27b4c662a01a38514e9c937d9	ELBA-2008-2004
	ocfs2-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.5-6.x86_64.rpm	8fd8ea864a8931e7efe9db5a3caf7e16	ELBA-2008-2004
	ocfs2-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.5-6.x86_64.rpm	bef19265b12e33bbe3bda8c62c33b901	ELBA-2008-2004
	oracleasm-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL-2.0.3-2.x86_64.rpm	05ba4d1521988e1e86ff780dcd4f5b65	-
	oracleasm-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.3-2.x86_64.rpm	e63e90e669f53c2c43ec64baa3fae5a6	-
	oracleasm-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.3-2.x86_64.rpm	464ea1ce299c68b0b4f496f6a7caee37	-

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