ELSA-2009-1550

ELSA-2009-1550 - kernel security and bug fix update

Type:	SECURITY
Severity:	IMPORTANT
Release Date:	2009-11-04

Description

[2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL]
- add directio support for qla drivers (herb) [ora 6346849]
- support PT Quad card [ora 5751043]
- io to nfs partition hangs [ora 5088963]
- add entropy for bnx2 nic [ora 5931647]
- avoid large allocation-fragmentation in MTU (zab)
- fix clear highpage (wli)

[2.4.21-63.EL]
- fs: fix pipe null pointer dereference (Don Howard) [530935] {CVE-2009-3547}

[2.4.21-61.EL]
- ipv6: use timer pending to fix bridge reference count problem (Don Howard) [457010]
- net: fix unix socket panic (Don Howard) [470432] {CVE-2008-5029}
- unix: fix oom with unix socket garbage collector [473266] {CVE-2008-5300}
- exit_notify: kill the wrong capable check (Don Howard) [497266] {CVE-2009-1337}
- e1000: fix skb_over_panic (Don Howard) [503439] {CVE-2009-1385}
- net: ensure devname passed to SO_BINDTODEVICE is NULL-terminated (Don Howard) [505514]
- kernel: personality handling: fix per_clear_on_setid (Don Howard) [508845] {CVE-2009-1895}
- build with fno-delete-null-pointer-checks (Don Howard) [511185]
- implement mmap_min_addr infrastructure (Don Howard) [512642]
- execve: must clear current->clear_child_tid (Don Howard) [515426] {CVE-2009-2848}
- net: Fix info leaks in getname() implementations (Don Howard) [520292] {CVE-2009-3002}
- net: ipv4: ip_append_data handle NULL routing table (Don Howard) [520300]

Related CVEs

Updated Packages

Release/Architecture	Filename	MD5sum	Superseded By Advisory
Oracle Linux 3 (i386)	kernel-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.src.rpm	f58308218bdd01dbdee02afeaf24f113	-
	oracleasm-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL-1.0.5-1.src.rpm	7d9cdbde09d7d72432691edc9db7278c	-
	kernel-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.athlon.rpm	80c6ef219ecc69234d29eb87b8e9ad00	-
	kernel-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.i686.rpm	63451e654a0c1fc731cf99f2be0cfd66	-
	kernel-BOOT-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.i386.rpm	af9faa3332fe276612be897d1d1fa708	-
	kernel-doc-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.i386.rpm	897744399c23fc63315c4bf7bdde1e14	-
	kernel-hugemem-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.i686.rpm	5d72a76332207e9ebeb3cd530fdcf53c	-
	kernel-hugemem-unsupported-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.i686.rpm	88ecbf5b6428a638b228c942aeaa78e9	-
	kernel-smp-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.athlon.rpm	c80ba069928c03756c70e55f8b5257fc	-
	kernel-smp-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.i686.rpm	2eeb91bdd08a2907e7282a0cd11e7a93	-
	kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.athlon.rpm	2e6c941572fdede9911e997ee390ec5b	-
	kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.i686.rpm	b2d4e0a65cfbf2a2ac5a4542a2d427fb	-
	kernel-source-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.i386.rpm	3e5f2acd8d22483574572377cef629c7	-
	kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.athlon.rpm	f8715eb120c04a8ab71a8b1d0ec5d268	-
	kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.i686.rpm	f7fd057e73a5cb4e0155b9a8e2f9543c	-
	oracleasm-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL-1.0.5-1.i686.rpm	68932154b90d714e377b3bceee102ac2	-
	oracleasm-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.ELhugemem-1.0.5-1.i686.rpm	5779d28ab8470603e60f0a19739514d9	-
	oracleasm-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.ELsmp-1.0.5-1.i686.rpm	bb3ad3f250e2719c24206603e9f5af5d	-
Oracle Linux 3 (x86_64)	kernel-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.src.rpm	f58308218bdd01dbdee02afeaf24f113	-
	oracleasm-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL-1.0.5-1.src.rpm	7d9cdbde09d7d72432691edc9db7278c	-
	kernel-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.ia32e.rpm	f75587a4a621f226d16665fecec83bf2	-
	kernel-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm	df856026cc2a8dfc29fdcfcaf07def0d	-
	kernel-doc-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm	02d0b645d5862a54a2c1e912ccd0700c	-
	kernel-smp-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm	f783939da9c1195cb6d10896d477d2a5	-
	kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm	ffdd0ea73da761d849e7d1cf42ac34ff	-
	kernel-source-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm	ca8ec646ce81bd80c335c908a51c4f07	-
	kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.ia32e.rpm	3f5f369ac1e7528213484d6b5b0c1a16	-
	kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm	e0888475795f300cac17e6b972482ba4	-
	oracleasm-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL-1.0.5-1.ia32e.rpm	700aff3aa8667c6667502c31762bcf1a	-
	oracleasm-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL-1.0.5-1.x86_64.rpm	1feab36020a7cdbdef73b020f8165c79	-
	oracleasm-2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.ELsmp-1.0.5-1.x86_64.rpm	63f60f8134afa328a0ebfaf638b63adc	-

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