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ELSA-2009-1211

ELSA-2009-1211 - kernel security and bug fix update

Type:SECURITY
Severity:IMPORTANT
Release Date:2009-08-13

Description



[2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL]
- 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]
- backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread (Guru Anbalagane)
[orabug 6125546]
- netrx/netpoll race avoidance (Tina Yang) [orabug 6143381]
- [XEN] Fix elf_core_dump (Tina Yang) [orabug 6995928]
- 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]
- [xen]: port el5u2 patch that allows 64-bit PVHVM guest to boot with 32-bit
dom0 [orabug 7452107] xenstore
- [mm] update shrink_zone patch to allow 100% swap utilization (John Sobecki,
Chris Mason, Chuck Anderson, Dave McCracken) [orabug 7566319,6086839]
- [kernel] backport report_lost_ticks patch from EL5.2 (John Sobecki)
[orabug 6110605]
- [xen] fix for hung JVM thread after #GPF [orabug 7916406] (Chuck Anderson)
- port EL5U3 patch to adjust totalhigh_pages in the balloon driver [orabug 8300888]
- check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change (Chuck Anderson) [orabug7556514]
- [XEN] use hypercall to fixmap pte updates (Mukesh Rathor) [orabug 8433329]
- [XEN] Extend physical mask to 40bit for machine above 64G [orabug 8312526]

[2.6.9-89.0.7]
-Revert: eliminate deadlock with echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches (Larry Woodman) [505649 495861]

[2.6.9-89.0.6]
-r8169: fix crash when large packets are received (Ivan Vecera) [504729 504730] {CVE-2009-1389}
-block: block initialize request struct (Tomas Henzl) [513189 505506]
-scsi: do not fastfail device errors (Mike Christie) [514007 505122]

[2.6.9-89.0.5]
-mm: clear hugeptes properly (James Paradis) [513182 497204]
-block: protect the per gendisk partition array with rcu (Jeff Moyer) [512310 495858]

[2.6.9-89.0.4]
-cifs: fix unicode alignment and buffer sizing problems (Jeff Layton) [494277 494278] {CVE-2009-1439}
-cifs: fix potential buffer overruns when converting strings (Jeff Layton) [496574 496575] {CVE-2009-1633}
-eliminate deadlock with echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches (Larry Woodman) [505649 495861]
-net: bonding: select current active slave when enslaving device for mode tlb and alb (Jiri Pirko) [507563 500637]
-fix cast in time keeping code (Prarit Bhargava) [508835 491147]


Related CVEs


CVE-2009-1389
CVE-2009-1439
CVE-2009-1633

Updated Packages


Release/ArchitectureFilenameMD5sumSuperseded By Advisory
Oracle Linux 4 (i386) kernel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.src.rpmcd44c85abd8b8e95a1bc012b58ab83dfELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm4cb44bb81771d8555982f00533417ccc-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpm22eeb295d94269fa3129b9127b1e584c-
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.i686.rpm62426d99bd05537e3c47aec6d25438e1ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.i686.rpm1e28be79c9aad2aaed9960e7c3a1830bELBA-2011-1796
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm3aea060365295836c82f2a092d0ff23bELBA-2011-1796
kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.i686.rpm408f64ecb5cc930bcf09271cf180a444ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.i686.rpma40853f357dd9ef6199bea1ac062732dELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.i686.rpm9b33afb7796fcd0686089545f13b9a06ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.i686.rpme740bb7cd762fb0fdffb5ae3bbfa3cbaELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.i686.rpmc639aaa679bec4c073a2524a56f8ac55ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.i686.rpm655efdbe43e7ad1d4b270128e1650e53ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm48933dd503e68fec233274d8d54437e4-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELhugemem-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm9e611c97d638008bdda04a1d253d58b3-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm7e97a68e6e2d19bd43468fe88fead11b-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm3436801f4ca312e47e85a90dfaca9ba0-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm0d1a5f6373ba823efd70f8e64849e17d-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELhugemem-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm40146433b607d344b46d4f9fd6d79bc3-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm065bf0e299499cf3d7cf3191434f0aeb-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm9c5d1ce6127931dfca43b27e70553491-
Oracle Linux 4 (ia64) kernel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.src.rpmcd44c85abd8b8e95a1bc012b58ab83dfELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm4cb44bb81771d8555982f00533417ccc-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpm22eeb295d94269fa3129b9127b1e584c-
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm2d34cd5838638ae7d7b009291b61e2b4ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm2453b45a6c7fde14eae0b1c97a82e512ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm3aea060365295836c82f2a092d0ff23bELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm3bbe00f74576a6917c0adee2030c9f50ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm72e36199ace009fecbac3e9170b3f8f3ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm4c4834cba2a3125c49bbd83cc7d9c9b7-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm90267ebe6bc0239af9f7e5182dff58bd-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm4f12ba4ed13187fcaf46854cf392104a-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm5aa8bc871cc3e93e32e0815234d574f7-
Oracle Linux 4 (x86_64) kernel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.src.rpmcd44c85abd8b8e95a1bc012b58ab83dfELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm4cb44bb81771d8555982f00533417ccc-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpm22eeb295d94269fa3129b9127b1e584c-
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm71ec307ca99d06967623ca46018fd523ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm273c437be1f07dde65983455cce70f57ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm3aea060365295836c82f2a092d0ff23bELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpma68e8198f5fb28e0491502486bfd5c43ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm345348cf1bd4de8700c4e6152231a12bELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm2c70898ff42807d093dd6b6e7627bfcdELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm24d84e3a5f6173617c45ec3c81d65e57ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpme189cc74480adf8597825a999132221bELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpmd80c8a7e0a5894cafcf753f83a44ef5aELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm3818e9a47f7f417d8e4f172339625d62-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm90dcdd6b55a318f6f4092d58f132f699-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm32033a0211f6c8956dd3b8e675b17535-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm4ae653069ee5384f1a4d94974de39dd6-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm27614e56041665848332dbead0e88c7f-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm652b7ba1e89518c997d6861a939ecde8-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm348379624a1258242ae4c2669c2c84a6-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm9fddf4c1c1770a6fb8877081184e2ca3-



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