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ELSA-2008-0972

ELSA-2008-0972 - kernel security and bug fix update

Type:SECURITY
Severity:IMPORTANT
Release Date:2008-11-19

Description



[2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL]
- fix entropy flag in bnx2 driver to generate entropy pool (John Sobecki)
[orabug 5931647]
- fix skb alignment that was causing sendto() to fail with EFAULT (Olaf Kirch)
[orabug 6845794]
- 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]
- backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread (Guru Anbalagane)
[orabug 6125546]
- netrx/netpoll race avoidance (Tina Yang) [orabug 6143381]
- fix guest spinning in xen (Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 7004010]
- fix serial port lock recursion (Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 6761872]
- [XEN] Fix elf_core_dump (Tina Yang) [orabug 6995928]
- fix in nfs_attribute_timeout() (Trond Myklebust) [orabug 7378108]
- [vm] Fix hang in shrink_zone for direct reclaim threads under heavy swapping
load condition (John Sobecki,Chris Mason) [orabug 6086839]
- use lfence instead of cpuid instruction to implement memory barriers
(Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 7452412]
- add netpoll support to xen netfront (Tina Yang) [orabz 7261]

[2.6.9-78.0.8]
-pwc: fix kernel pwc driver dos (Eugene Teo) [308501 308511] {CVE-2007-5093}
-[s390] prevent ptrace padding area read write in 31 bit mode (Jarod Wilson) [437932 438148] {CVE-2008-1514}
-ext[234]: avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption (Eric Sandeen) [459598 459599] {CVE-2008-3528}
-kernel: open call allows setgid bit when user is not in new file's group (Eugene Teo) [463685 463686] {CVE-2008-4210}
-cifs: fix o_append on directio mounts (Jeff Layton) [464494 461005]
-ixgbe: remove device id for unsupported device (Andy Gospodarek) [465735 456533]
-aacraid: remove quirk aac_quirk_scsi_32 for some controllers (Tomas Henzl) [468151 457552]
-mptfusion: mpt causes panic if a raid 1 is configured (Tomas Henzl) [465265 469236]
-cpufreq: support for affected_cpus (Brian Maly) [469647 465366]

[2.6.9-78.0.7]
-scsi: fix oops when removing devices from sym driver (Mike Christie) [455770 441545]
-netdump: fix up several netdump issues (Neil Horman) [466113 461014]
-mptfusion: fix outputting large amount of log message when issuing host reset (Tomas Henzl) [466217 455451]

[2.6.9-78.0.6]
-fix kernel snd_seq_oss_synth_make_info leak (Eugene Teo) [457998 457999] {CVE-2008-3272}
-dio: zero struct dio with kzalloc instead of manually (Eugene Teo) [461089 461090] {CVE-2007-6716}
-ext3: fix ext3 block accounting (Josef Bacik) [464496 450900]
-fix regression in /proc/self/mem (Anton Arapov) [464747 460106]
-allocate usb and scsi hba structs together (Pete Zaitcev) [465232 441552]
-Fix do_wait() vs exec() race (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [466214 452706]


Related CVEs


CVE-2007-5093
CVE-2007-6716
CVE-2008-3272
CVE-2008-3528
CVE-2008-4210
CVE-2008-1514

Updated Packages


Release/ArchitectureFilenameMD5sumSuperseded By Advisory
Oracle Linux 4 (i386) kernel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.src.rpmfd17c80b563c68f02c35b842bd376793ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm46b94feffd94c26fdb465261f210edef-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpm0ff9205a2670f25e5835741a3d827307-
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.i686.rpm8c8e86b40d29f0a54468e352f14256c6ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.i686.rpmcb73b6793cf5b7cd24672c03c5d6ab27ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm7a0c40f662f13b4541f5b35917c3ca4fELBA-2011-1796
kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.i686.rpm91fe53b16b17b9acef2a583d414c7246ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.i686.rpmf214064907c4851367b490c043bba520ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.i686.rpme28f85eadaad888bd58f2b2c7a408ac1ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.i686.rpmc39f816366ff91a1e3b4e53036e7650aELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.i686.rpm7e58ea79eedc924a03dc112b19708d7fELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.i686.rpm82e05cc5f3b0d5a5e606119bc72cc854ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm2141d4378c7173368d067d1bf033c68c-
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.ELhugemem-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpma81377bb59c1824c3a30c638ffa81d58-
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm3e1d3115fde93a322f620ca8ea48bed6-
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm591a0d6614320ad085cc889084a98a60-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm35443662dbdd1fa47f93053b68e18d04-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.ELhugemem-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm441c2163aa392e14a8cbcbd98213d6cf-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpmad0dd7198cb7d5dc69f6ec9e1974eff3-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm503576cd68a605f33ef761389b20f1b0-
Oracle Linux 4 (ia64) kernel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.src.rpmfd17c80b563c68f02c35b842bd376793ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm46b94feffd94c26fdb465261f210edef-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpm0ff9205a2670f25e5835741a3d827307-
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm5a1841e879426edbfb19b2b025358dfdELBA-2011-1796
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm2fbae28f90bdc21c5261873799ba0a2aELBA-2011-1796
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm7a0c40f662f13b4541f5b35917c3ca4fELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.ia64.rpmd0cfe3178e11a48e03d7012cbc9c1573ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.ia64.rpmc80d73166ec8d68ed63e1799c478a99cELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm4441b2121d7034239812afa3d77795ad-
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm60d637c290548a09962fa3c7d0aed52b-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm31070ab0e6b0208e2ee30c52c9640f78-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpmdadccbd81561dbb0f8b8a32e36ff1e48-
Oracle Linux 4 (x86_64) kernel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.src.rpmfd17c80b563c68f02c35b842bd376793ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm46b94feffd94c26fdb465261f210edef-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpm0ff9205a2670f25e5835741a3d827307-
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm637b781162776209adfc255969b75fd8ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm4df6d1b8c51a89c62d5e6e926257bffaELBA-2011-1796
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm7a0c40f662f13b4541f5b35917c3ca4fELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm1de97d994c0ebdfe80ee920a2e8c57fdELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpmfd1cbfed6121a40bde7a7d43913d2a22ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm927b5de797bcddd814ed76686606d295ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpmcbd9f353f8a4b7854fc1b7acea02901dELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm09e6d7a613fadb6d836e1d7ce9b3247aELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpmdabce799b8bfe28308ca2a25ea654e62ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm83d41140fbd766d7fc477cf9efb872c2-
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm104e5f1be468ea5bc9c5a64aaf4da82d-
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm7d17004c6b28a31fe598c64f32ffcb87-
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm9c15d14888c214cf221cf92b14ce0882-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpmc0368600c57d668070b5ac2e94439132-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm08f0d81ed6896a1164fb4059c6ed77b0-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpma580a53dd172ed12c72cddcc53f71ea0-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm04c2561b09759fcf414b2f1182db4ef8-



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