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ELSA-2009-0331

ELSA-2009-0331 - kernel security and bug fix update

Type:SECURITY
Severity:IMPORTANT
Release Date:2009-03-12

Description



[2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.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]
- 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]
- [xen] execshield: fix endless GPF fault loop (Stephen Tweedie) [orabug 7175395]
- port Red Hat bug 472572: HVM crash in net/core/dev.c during boot [orabug 7653948]
The following Red Hat patches were ported from the source RPM at:
http://people.redhat.com/vgoyal/rhel4/SRPMS.kernel/kernel-2.6.9-78.22.EL.src.rpm
linux-2.6.9-xen-fix-netfront-mem-leak.patch
linux-2.6.9-xen-xen-vnif-stops-working-on-reception-of-duplicat.patch
linux-2.6.9-xen-guest-will-crash-if-rtl8139-nic-is-only-one-spe.patch
- fix kernel null dereference in ap_suspend() during migration [orabug 7635625]
Ported from the el5u2 xenpv-0.1-9.0.1.el5 patch
ovs-bugz7262-fix-migration-hang-due-to-write-lock-starvation.patch.
In el5u2, the fix is to the xenpv driver. For el4u7, the xenpv driver
was moved into the kernel.
- port el4u6 xenpv patch (orabug 7442030) for live migration hang
[orabug 7458244]
- [xen]: port el5u2 patch that allows 64-bit PVHVM guest to boot with 32-bit
dom0 [orabug 7452107]
- [mm] update shrink_zone patch to allow 100% swap utilization (John Sobecki,
Chris Mason, Chuck Anderson, Dave McCracken) [orabug 7566319,6086839]
- [nfs] update fix for attribute caching when using actimeo=0 (Chuck Lever,
John Sobecki) [ORABUG 7131141,7156607,7388056] [RHBZ 446083,476726]
- [kernel] backport report_lost_ticks patch from EL5.2 (John Sobecki)
[orabug 6110605]

[2.6.9-78.0.17]
-respin: added missing patches from build 78.0.15

[2.6.9-78.0.16]
-revert: nmi watchdog: move check_nmi_watchdog to later in boot time (Aristeu Rozanski) [479184 458859]

[2.6.9-78.0.15]
-fix a buffer overflow vulnerability with del_rbu driver (Don Howard) [482939 482940] {CVE-2009-0322}
-security: introduce missing kfree (Jiri Pirko) [480595 480596] {CVE-2009-0031}
-xen: add spurious fault handling to rhel4 xen (Chris Lalancette) [483748 465914]

[2.6.9-78.0.14]
-net: fix race between poll_napi and net_rx_action (Andy Gospodarek) [475970 463815]
-netpoll: fix race condition between net_rx_action and poll_napi that can result in garbage device (Neil Horman) [480741 474479]
-net: fix double list_del in net_rx_action (Neil Horman) [479681 477202]
-fs: fix 'it already cleared for block' errors (Josef Bacik) [476533 460179]
-iptables: fix oops on module unload (Neil Horman) [477147 456664]
-pidhashing: fix alloc_pidmap (Jiri Pirko) [479182 461246]
-nmi watchdog: move check_nmi_watchdog to later in boot time (Aristeu Rozanski) [479184 458859]
-sctp: memory overflow when fwd tsn chunk is received with bad stream id (Eugene Teo) [478959 478960] {CVE-2009-0065}
-kernel: enforce a minimum sg_io timeout (Eugene Teo) [475403 475404]


Related CVEs


CVE-2008-5700
CVE-2009-0031
CVE-2009-0065
CVE-2009-0322

Updated Packages


Release/ArchitectureFilenameMD5sumSuperseded By Advisory
Oracle Linux 4 (i386) kernel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.src.rpmc3e3bb0bc108d0d1f029f2aac249f6f6ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm597cccec2f986952b44a52930f97645f-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpm1d781f641e37ea75de201e5305f7e381-
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.i686.rpmcc18574e06b2b92fee2c66a8b076f973ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.i686.rpmef5f8082ce98701136276913fbce46fdELBA-2011-1796
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.noarch.rpma88336f1693d43aa7fe3f8c425c14082ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.i686.rpm968f5a8410e003dd2dd58cd1a99df8aaELBA-2011-1796
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.i686.rpme93413ebbd998054b5a2514499e726b5ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.i686.rpm088a2210947de241a56f290c3ac2e13eELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.i686.rpm4a4084f72ef0c10df7efc36a46f9be30ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.i686.rpmc28f6c5a5f8c4574cfd72db3be4edc55ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.i686.rpmff4b99d77db4b469ed2d7220ac758e5cELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm846e3b780c3d48a10e82a721b7f4e3d0-
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELhugemem-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpmd934e9ac5f36504b9b35fd9233060ba4-
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm67a9740bd74a31ee72c6efe8b3569208-
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpmb5eacc09ea88642edbe92cbe9c1ea2aa-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm6b8115277ed8aded5d32b7f85d7bad4f-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELhugemem-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpmd7205fa9995d6021667fe6f30066e158-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm62e7c314e5d442ecba4d3eff408e8cde-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpmca11f53015b4dc2b49cb0595760a9b30-
Oracle Linux 4 (ia64) kernel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.src.rpmc3e3bb0bc108d0d1f029f2aac249f6f6ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm597cccec2f986952b44a52930f97645f-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpm1d781f641e37ea75de201e5305f7e381-
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.ia64.rpma2ef3148c9e442630aa84d2cd617e6b7ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm90b7d6fbe81fdf3071b9cef51c00ffe6ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.noarch.rpma88336f1693d43aa7fe3f8c425c14082ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm1110d597b50f00dac014c038a94aaa78ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm0ebbeddd1df9c859e6fc8f31327a6672ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm9651d1935a9ef7c1fae3033c772e3c05-
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpme794f0c01ea9d2870afd810633fcf2be-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm7fb7b2378be1c63d47737a7818ed6ff2-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm9ba8199013b0bc561bbb669fa2f8db58-
Oracle Linux 4 (x86_64) kernel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.src.rpmc3e3bb0bc108d0d1f029f2aac249f6f6ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm597cccec2f986952b44a52930f97645f-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpm1d781f641e37ea75de201e5305f7e381-
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm4f6f659ee9bab870869003f35e48e0baELBA-2011-1796
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm1448e19cda9e085e76ca61ac1b072893ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.noarch.rpma88336f1693d43aa7fe3f8c425c14082ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpme1c937a206701dc3e3b5ceeaeb655741ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm770849d560fc6446ab0c6e2d392b8a4dELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpma3a1c9add63a09ef4e1b0a932aa9c220ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpmc1e474794e4400d0ce96668c828cf98bELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm6578a4dbb055a04863df7a27228a89f0ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm5abc6e257c34a7850e2d788806c9a5e1ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm63f58d874826559a293d7dc8570bfe28-
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpmd6dcb3f0cbf7348a49fc47eb9bd9aaea-
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpmf5215ece6d434d3f3c11bf6223386c86-
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm91a5e3b87dbf9e5297bf69d9c21b1e58-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm1b3d89a0938e07560fc715a420113a75-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm2c8a9e16763b2ff7634fef6dbb4db5c8-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm73988a1e6fe66360f82f57b3b66222fc-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm4107db8ab206e33ae850acebd2de8040-



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