ELSA-2010-0076

ELSA-2010-0076 - kernel security and bug fix update

Type:SECURITY
Severity:IMPORTANT
Release Date:2010-02-03

Description



[2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.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]
- FP register state is corrupted during the handling a SIGSEGV (Chuck Anderson)
[orabug 7708133]
- [x86_64]: fix x86_64 largesmp kernel reboot hang (Joe Jin) [orabug bug9126592]
- [nfs]: fix file attribute caching (Chuck Lever, Herbert van den Bergh)
[orabug 8449921]
- [mm] revert patch #2042 (John Sobecki) [orabug 8895251]

[2.6.9-89.0.20]
-improved rx length check for r8169 (Neil Horman) [556406 550911]
-isdn: hfc_usb: fix read buffer overflow in collect_rx_frame() (Danny Feng) [539436 539437] {CVE-2009-4005}
-megaraid_sas: fix dbg_lvl and poll_mode_io file permissions in sysfs (Danny Feng) [537310 537311] {CVE-2009-3889 CVE-2009-3939}
-hfs: fix a potential buffer overflow (Amerigo Wang) [540738 540739] {CVE-2009-4020}
-gdth: prevent negative offsets in ioctl (Amerigo Wang) [539418 539419] {CVE-2009-3080}
-ptrace: ptrace_detach can leak a zombie (Oleg Nesterov) [555869 539506]
-strace: strace hangs when the mt tracee does coredump (Oleg Nesterov) [555869 539506]


Related CVEs


CVE-2009-3080
CVE-2009-3889
CVE-2009-3939
CVE-2009-4020
CVE-2009-4005

Updated Packages


Release/ArchitectureFilenameMD5sumSuperseded By Advisory
Oracle Linux 4 (i386) kernel-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.src.rpm60aabf2e6c3939d5a07baa0328440325ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpmcfb8ee0e8dc8222932cb15ba3d7185a5-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpmc21f728e852888a09b9cd76300c7ca2e-
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.i686.rpmea054f62b09a2a022f16cc03cb2898d2ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.i686.rpm1396c3e9a3d35ec5bc7cd94196c16a62ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.noarch.rpmca09765bb48dee05de70639e1036dd06ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.i686.rpm8616976e36ecf3eae861be437f829a3bELBA-2011-1796
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.i686.rpmc2fb252f8602963a853fd7037b5a3b02ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.i686.rpm2bf465a72e28b03205cb02dcdeadbba5ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.i686.rpmeedeb0873dfda677d2a5c95da51e78e4ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.i686.rpm779b58a2b5bab7745fdb89a30f1a2461ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.i686.rpmf0ec01230461c21cf2d26463d738acd5ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm17e5cbced8d07361269e7884f5cd5c31-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.ELhugemem-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm5154dc7ec2a150b072e1d74ccf19e68c-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm31f32edeeb7b6160160186ccda9b6f0c-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm6933337a76699a690a24b63dca7340db-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpmf6377476db7a6a9e8cbfb6a6428572a9-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.ELhugemem-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm8a6f76663104eea9fd17bae7151b7d26-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm522151f4404a7bec8af8990760dccced-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpmefa5bcb2bcf305a429c01cf00e0bffaf-
Oracle Linux 4 (ia64) kernel-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.src.rpm60aabf2e6c3939d5a07baa0328440325ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpmcfb8ee0e8dc8222932cb15ba3d7185a5-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpmc21f728e852888a09b9cd76300c7ca2e-
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.ia64.rpmd5e96ce4e5521284637de2428782c456ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm39807856e6a72d8f28d4aa85086521d1ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.noarch.rpmca09765bb48dee05de70639e1036dd06ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.ia64.rpmed862ab8779117841701a34b0af38b8eELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.ia64.rpmf594aa87901467872fa8b0bf839bc30aELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpmaf4f0488e06ef9617edb30c8c31e74b3-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpmb64a462b67a0c3978343f7df806fb117-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm66af643ff7a6c7cd645c238ed616925c-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm4bfbad4a05c4bf49dcabc5f3cc9644d9-
Oracle Linux 4 (x86_64) kernel-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.src.rpm60aabf2e6c3939d5a07baa0328440325ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpmcfb8ee0e8dc8222932cb15ba3d7185a5-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpmc21f728e852888a09b9cd76300c7ca2e-
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm0bc0bc678f31fe8fb7becaebd3ba4818ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm64c12bc5b3c4c3676c663bb2eb25d5feELBA-2011-1796
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.noarch.rpmca09765bb48dee05de70639e1036dd06ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm1d2149e7518d88fed6dd5fa766930961ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpme28b125979fc12248b3290efaf245129ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm1dbbd283a39e8a5252889c80f9b92838ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm34f4a53d490a359d06e13d65c650bd6dELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpme708779ccf466c366474eda981931bf4ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpme8396993bfc919c53a7d688ab581af8aELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm11edd3e624d385dfcb12f87b8b441685-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpmed73c767884c418c1339c743abb0012d-
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ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpma9890bee3321a8db4a401079ae75af65-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm73710d68c5b317120de658aa6a61748a-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm07b70a2d6609803a9fef1346c1047a39-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm155ad80e243bf3ace86a7b15d658021c-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.20.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm1f9cd7d8f887ede98799782a9ecc1d54-



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