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ELSA-2009-1671

ELSA-2009-1671 - kernel security and bug fix update

Type:SECURITY
Severity:IMPORTANT
Release Date:2009-12-16

Description



[2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.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]
- fix oops in nlmclnt_mark_reclaim (Trond Myklebust) [orabug 8568878]
- [x86_64] Allowed machine_reboot running on boot_cpu (Joe Jin) [orabug 8425237]

[2.6.9-89.0.18]
-i8042: regression fix: disable and enable aux port at close (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [537344 531192]
-r8169: balance pci_map/unmap pair, use hw padding (Ivan Vecera) [529141 529142] {CVE-2009-3613}
-forcedeth: add phy_power_down parameter, leave phy powered up by default (Ivan Vecera) [534112 532593]
-fusion: mptctl module dereferences a userspace address, triggering a crash (Rob Evers) [533798 528066]
-net: ipv4: make ip_append_data handle null routing table (Jiri Pirko) [537016 520299]
-bnx2x: fix bnx2x failing when iptables is on (Stanislaw Gruszka) [537013 527656]
-nlm: don't try to reclaim locks on -o nolock mounts (Jeff Layton) [537017 176848]

[2.6.9-89.0.17]
-fix x86_64 32bit process register leak (Amerigo Wang) [526795 526796] {CVE-2009-2910}
-drm r128: add test for initialisation to all ioctls that require it (Danny Feng) [529600 529601] {CVE-2009-3620}
-net: af_unix: fix deadlock on connecting to shutdown socket (Jiri Pirko) [529628 529629] {CVE-2009-3621}
-hid-input: fix divide by zero in hid-input.c (Pete Zaitcev) [532027 483783]
-igb: add link check function to verify that link is present (Stefan Assmann) [534105 529037]
-ipt_recent: do not accept a rule if hit count is great than ip_pkt_list_tot (Amerigo Wang) [529306 523983]
-cciss: add bus attribute to support device mapper multipath target (Tomas Henzl) [529309 484415]


Related CVEs


CVE-2009-2910
CVE-2009-3613
CVE-2009-3620
CVE-2009-3621

Updated Packages


Release/ArchitectureFilenameMD5sumSuperseded By Advisory
Oracle Linux 4 (i386) kernel-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.src.rpm45d0c6a0bcb0090c85672a71a75f9090ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm48bc1362d2b3e5bd5e349737e5da91e4-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpm635f200182984311af951ade503147e5-
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.i686.rpm90ccf6f054be101e5b0ada8d01388516ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.i686.rpm2dfb244a593bdcd2a81c72ec43da32abELBA-2011-1796
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.noarch.rpmf6789e7ac4ed365c56225f426492b9f9ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.i686.rpme526164714085ce7ae7581f4122d5cc2ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.i686.rpm2fc4ddbd9f7439d78d23e0b57804b8ffELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.i686.rpm7930fbe0822fe8be746c53fcd7fedb72ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.i686.rpm34f400969080bf78be3746d683dc890eELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.i686.rpm4e526b6f8bb2a9c267bfa7d4a1785214ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.i686.rpm44a18ec03f2a6143d030ada8c05db61eELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm8edbd72d25fd8f94e458a10015502f97-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.ELhugemem-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm1d0709e4f47a8135c12b475da8eacf68-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm003d3b025bf314a38cfeb294677b3368-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpmb6add857e7c2d8f0faade36e5a225460-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpmddd919e88f97527beab519e41326809c-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.ELhugemem-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpme58df55730ef8be6c6b02d1e91038be9-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpmf158d983e81946f26ac66086442b31c8-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm27c7d17dc1cf4a31a2c229790f7ceb79-
Oracle Linux 4 (ia64) kernel-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.src.rpm45d0c6a0bcb0090c85672a71a75f9090ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm48bc1362d2b3e5bd5e349737e5da91e4-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpm635f200182984311af951ade503147e5-
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.ia64.rpmca5dc17e65ccca858e298fda3c1bc038ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm9870fa8e8e5f2dea30fb29fc89c72f6dELBA-2011-1796
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.noarch.rpmf6789e7ac4ed365c56225f426492b9f9ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.ia64.rpma81111b8892076d75425716e99c7e1d6ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.ia64.rpmc281e4a93f123dda881e0cd20129541bELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpmeb443a8dd89f62b056b6efba27182aed-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm3d66468717340f7fa51feb99e1c24cfb-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpme58d94cb9c73914e5f0e146adbd67374-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpmc01f4002b5f46710ac90717afe3f848f-
Oracle Linux 4 (x86_64) kernel-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.src.rpm45d0c6a0bcb0090c85672a71a75f9090ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm48bc1362d2b3e5bd5e349737e5da91e4-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpm635f200182984311af951ade503147e5-
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm3fabbf1c2ce6bd045d954bc35d487b4bELBA-2011-1796
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpmfcaee79978e5abd2a3e660d519a07ad9ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.noarch.rpmf6789e7ac4ed365c56225f426492b9f9ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpmd59b6bfd82f277ce99fb908be10fc9e5ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpma1880572ece1690d1a1ba9361b7fd43dELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm9edda0aa8a8083a475c18ce787e81e5aELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm7005516e77802cc8a9e5b13cf058b41eELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpmefbba7ee752faf333e35123d95e9ff62ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpmcee9d2757f9f2dec48ee7dff53e93e8cELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm1191f2ef52d9237de4261bdecf699e21-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm0913c7291aeb677beb9c5282d43eb8df-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm0a006da2c90e49515c28b487285b42da-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm447ff9ffe19257b04661935c6a1ec6d1-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm67a0f7185f2104f723a6947c20ade1d6-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm2fd3982c75207813b9954c84ce699921-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm3ac418bc6d95903ae574452aed008327-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm95d3b267bdb699da56bb3415e708bf7d-



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