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Home > Products and services > CSIRTUK advisories > Advisories archive > May 2005 > Fedora Update Notification: FEDORA-2005-392 - kernel

May 2005

Fedora Update Notification: FEDORA-2005-392 - kernel

ID: 00435
Ref: 402/2005
Date: 24 May 2005:14:39:43
Version: 1

Title: Fedora Update Notification: FEDORA-2005-392 - kernel
Abstract: The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc.
Vendors affected: Fedora
Operating systems affected: Fedora
Applications affected: Fedora

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Fedora Update Notification: FEDORA-2005-392 - kernel

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The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions
of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device
input and output, etc.




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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-392
2005-05-23
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : kernel
Version : 2.6.11
Release : 1.27_FC3
Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions
of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device
input and output, etc.

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* Tue May 17 2005 Dave Jones
- - Remove the unused (and outdated) Xen patches from the FC3 tree.

* Mon May 16 2005 Dave Jones
- - Rebase to 2.6.11.10, (fixing CAN-2005-1264)

* Thu May 12 2005 Dave Jones
- - Rebase to 2.6.11.9, (fixing CAN-2005-1263)

* Tue May 10 2005 Dave Jones
- - Fix two bugs in x86-64 page fault handler.

* Mon May 9 2005 Dave Jones
- - Rebase to 2.6.11.8
| Fixes CAN-2005-1368 (local DoS in key lookup). (#156680)
| Fixes CAN-2005-1369 (i2c alarms sysfs DoS). (#156683)
- - Merge IDE fixes from 2.6.11-ac7
- - Add Conflicts for older IPW firmwares.
- - Fix conntrack leak with raw sockets.

* Sun May 1 2005 Dave Jones
- - Various firewire fixes backported from -mm. (#133798)
(Thanks to Jody McIntyre for doing this)

* Fri Apr 29 2005 Dave Jones
- - fix oops in aacraid open when using adaptec tools. (#148761)
- - Blacklist another brainless SCSI scanner. (#155457)

* Thu Apr 21 2005 Dave Jones
- - Fix up SCSI queue locking. (#155472)

* Tue Apr 19 2005 Dave Jones
- - SCSI tape security: require CAP_ADMIN for SG_IO etc. (#155355)

* Mon Apr 18 2005 Dave Jones
- - Retry more aggressively during USB device initialization

* Thu Apr 14 2005 Dave Jones
- - Build DRM modular. (#154769)

* Fri Apr 8 2005 Dave Jones
- - Disable Longhaul driver (again).


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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/

eb8eb148c1893fdebed808e57d1c7341 SRPMS/kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.src.rpm
5680aee8a9fc7cafb99ec9e1bf107cb2 x86_64/kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.x86_64.rpm
b888c53830bd94e7ccbcf7cf9a17b75b x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.x86_64.rpm
306bf40b4a80ca637f80886b42de3e33 x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.x86_64.rpm
b8654be689d10962150468682139d42d x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.noarch.rpm
8485fa1f02c34f27b5a3e1411542428b i386/kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i586.rpm
ed3ba65635f9b3e0a55bdb2324ec4336 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i586.rpm
44e3ecec92f6619082fed9d580fc0784 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i586.rpm
f1cad67f816aeeb95a0affc36a0e026f i386/kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i686.rpm
70734d76439c49a0713a5f09e7f65c5f i386/kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i686.rpm
15bbcfe72ad670d86be8abdee254713e i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i686.rpm
b8654be689d10962150468682139d42d i386/kernel-doc-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.noarch.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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