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ELSA-2010-0676

ELSA-2010-0676 - kernel security update

Type:SECURITY
Severity:IMPORTANT
Release Date:2010-09-07

Description



[2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL]
- [XEN] fix cpu hotplug crash (Joe Jin) [orabug 7521308]
- [XEN] Bring up vcpus before khelper init (Joe Jin) [orabug 7521308]
- [XEN] flush the tlb cache immediately (Dave McCracken, Scott Shi) [orabug 9138767]
- 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]
- 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]
- [x86_64] Add compat32 support for readahead and fadvise64 (John Haxby)
[orabug 9458826]
- [XEN] free pte on hugetlb_prefault to avoid the clear_page race
(Dave McCracken, Joe Jin) [orabug 9493665]
- [XEN] Flush tlb cache immediately to avoid clear_page race (Dave McCracken,
Joe Jin) [orabug 9488844]

[2.6.9-89.0.29]
-mm: keep a guard page below a grow-down stack segment (Don Howard) [607855 607856] {CVE-2010-2240}
-mm: accept an abutting stack segment (Don Howard) [607855 607856] {CVE-2010-2240}
-mm: fix up some user-visible effects of stack guard page (Don Howard) [607855 607856] {CVE-2010-2240}


Related CVEs


CVE-2010-2240

Updated Packages


Release/ArchitectureFilenameMD5sumSuperseded By Advisory
Oracle Linux 4 (i386) kernel-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.src.rpm21f720b92ee3c7e83501089981b88089ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm5abd8669d23dfd29638986c3d724edbd-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpmf377102780f2ff74345d8b68bb912f65-
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.i686.rpmc91d47a15e91b1fc75a71cab2bc5033cELBA-2011-1796
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.i686.rpmf2bd79be2f7ab6f92ff7e90503bf8fe1ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm5125249f8747764fe2c9d014150f12beELBA-2011-1796
kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.i686.rpmec2d55a4885a8bd92941bb819a32428cELBA-2011-1796
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.i686.rpm0250a8a0253c4442348b3f8bf7de3137ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.i686.rpm0cc9baf0c88963399aa30f066e8a89e9ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.i686.rpmf5257d05506b993f0c17eb67055da2b5ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.i686.rpm71146000cbc3a31c6c73936b7529a33dELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.i686.rpmdbee79002c2520098d2cf67e3bd5e8f1ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm2979db273a269bd7ee91f32f578cb1d0-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.ELhugemem-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpmb4096de8a31148b0cdc9fa984061762a-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm3982105c7014980c60ee30fa73b4a094-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm3f9e162fefa90bc832e8e5c4b7aa5db5-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpmb6a4b5bfa5d74c1f810337c3f9c1500c-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.ELhugemem-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm21cd508bd6a5bde275a83beb555468cd-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpmc24e7c36236b0f513ad51524413375b5-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm189863028775c218128a7deaf291aab1-
Oracle Linux 4 (ia64) kernel-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.src.rpm21f720b92ee3c7e83501089981b88089ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm5abd8669d23dfd29638986c3d724edbd-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpmf377102780f2ff74345d8b68bb912f65-
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm34222024b7908cd0d8bb6dedb36f147fELBA-2011-1796
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm959ecde97b4dba804aadbe55227c9481ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm5125249f8747764fe2c9d014150f12beELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm8e6fb8826f18359a864acb632203921bELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm1980ea91d308b41f4a90d80f116cb5d9ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm668038c470ab918a7e9a892cc630d4cd-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpmfdaba46a922bc0f7b6f3b33655fb02d9-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpmf793de4e60b44f994550ad37b7273d69-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpmfe1ba7721732fadc1de89ea27473c352-
Oracle Linux 4 (x86_64) kernel-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.src.rpm21f720b92ee3c7e83501089981b88089ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm5abd8669d23dfd29638986c3d724edbd-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpmf377102780f2ff74345d8b68bb912f65-
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpmefc9446d77ba5e5f7c226df63e69871aELBA-2011-1796
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm75ace28cabd3c512c94baae9495f7733ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm5125249f8747764fe2c9d014150f12beELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpmab9dbe77e6cd3eebdac95110a5091eb6ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm77e45af004f3f0797b3d817dd7912240ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm178cd8c7058e2d05a04a1557ff952a04ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm3710d48fa2a0a2880a554a9aa9ec3808ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm19aa9d0d10f64a356d4068a9a3dfbe33ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm80a277dcca8fa296e37bc14c64cfb431ELBA-2011-1796
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm4629b309d7e3843009b2adca1d481bae-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpmf4f16e123f176f491fe8f2b0f42285e0-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm8496609e0d8479764802080bcd0f041f-
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm140397d942a3db06ee75a3f79b003e10-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm8189c4eccdf1bdfd76be57a90fd34008-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpmd5c3680ea58722ed7f48f36ac8aaf3a8-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpme889793458a3f83a1299c7ba013d1436-
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpmc20b65099e3527ed9fa8b1ae23e4e406-



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