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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-1470
2006-12-18
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Product : Fedora Core 5
Name : kernel
Version : 2.6.18
Release : 1.2257.fc5
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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Update Information:
This update rebases to 2.6.18.6rc2, which fixes the
following security bugs:
bridge: fix possible overflow in get_fdb_entries (CVE-2006-5751)
Bluetooth: Add packet size checks for CAPI messages
(CVE-2006-6106)
In addition, a number of non-security related bugs have been
fixed. Complete changelogs are available at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18.4
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18.5
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18.6
Additional Fedora specific changes detailed below.
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* Fri Dec 15 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- 2.6.18.6rc2
* Wed Dec 13 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- squashfs robustness fixes from Phillip Lougher.
- lower max CPU count for x86-64 to 64 CPUs.
* Thu Dec 7 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
- update xen to 2.6.18.5.
- Fix bug 211986 on xen eventchn (Glaubert).
* Tue Dec 5 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- 2.6.18.5
- Disable auto-apic patch, it needs more thought.
- Enable sonypi driver for 586 kernels. (#218434)
* Tue Nov 21 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
- Update xen to 2.6.18.3.
* linux-2.6.18-xen changeset: 36186:053cdad40903
* xen-3.0.3-testing changeset: 11774:52ae8dd4bc75
* linux-2.6-xen-3.0.3 changeset: 22949:4281f5246814
* Mon Nov 20 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- 2.6.18.3
- Fix CIFS mount failure when domain not specified (#211753)
- Avoid null pointer dereference in SATA Promise. (#199142)
* Fri Nov 17 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Fix up fallout from disabling utrace.
* Fri Nov 17 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
- merge xen missing bits from FC6 kernel.
* Thu Nov 16 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Fix up error handling in HFS. (MOKB-14-11-2006)
* Thu Nov 16 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
- Update xen HV to 3.0.3_0 (cset 11774).
- Update xen kernel patch to 3.0.3_0:
* linux-2.6.18-xen changeset: 36182:c6ef4b521aef
* xen-3.0.3-testing changeset: 11774:52ae8dd4bc75
* linux-2.6-xen-3.0.3 changeset: 22949:4281f5246814
* Thu Nov 16 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Fix squashfs corruption bug. (#211237)
- Drop experimental utrace from FC5.
* Fri Nov 10 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
- disable XEN_FRAMEBUFFER & XEN_KEYBOARD.
* Fri Nov 10 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Xen grant table operations security fix.
- Disable W1 (#195825)
* Thu Nov 9 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Change HZ to 1000 for increased accuracy.
(Except in Xen, where it stays at 250 for now).
- TTY locking fixes.
- splice : Must fully check for FIFO
- Fix potential NULL dereference in sys_move_pages
- ISO9660 __find_get_block_slow() denial of service CVE-2006-5757
- Fix up oops in cramfs when encountering corrupt images.
- E1000 suspend/resume fixes.
- Set CIFS preferred IO size. (#214607)
* Mon Nov 6 2006 Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
- New utrace patch: fix locking snafu crash on second engine attach.
* Sun Nov 5 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Suspend/Resume fixes for forcedeth. (#187653)
* Sat Nov 4 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- 2.6.18.2
* Thu Nov 2 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Nuke broken lazy execshield xen patch.
- Use heuristics to determine whether to enable lapic on i386.
* Wed Nov 1 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- 2.6.18.2-rc1
* Tue Oct 31 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Fix UFS mounts on x86-64 (#209921)
- Fix problem where USB storage isn't seen on reboot. (#212191)
* Sun Oct 29 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- More ext3 robustness fixes.
- Include more verbose BUG() data
- x86_64: Fix up C3 timer latency.
* Sat Oct 21 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Reenable NCPFS (#211325, #203663)
- Netpoll fixes. (#199295)
* Fri Oct 20 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Fix autofs creating bad dentries in NFS mount. (#211206, #211207)
- Fix softlockup with ips driver. (#196437)
- Further exec-shield improvements.
- Fix lockup with sky2 driver. (#202203)
* Thu Oct 19 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Export copy_4K_page for ppc64 (#211410)
- Attempt to fix CIFS bug (#211070)
* Wed Oct 18 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Fix up aic7xxx SBLKCTL register handling (#211251)
- Disable SECMARK by default. (#211115)
- Disable some extra debugging stuff that crept in.
- Remove broken VIA quirk that prevented booting on some EPIAs (#211298)
* Tue Oct 17 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Silence noisy boot-time messages. (#180606)
- Workaround gcc bug with weak symbols (#191458)
- Don't let speedstep-smi register on mobile Pentium4 (#204477)
* Sat Oct 14 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Fix jbd crash with 1KB block size filesystems.
* Sat Oct 14 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> [2.6.18-1.2200.fc5]
- 2.6.18.1
* Tue Oct 10 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- DWARF2 unwinder fixes.
- Various lockdep fixes.
- Sync various other patches from the FC6 kernel.
* Sun Oct 1 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Drop the STICKY tag from acpi-cpufreq, it breaks suspend/resume.
* Fri Sep 29 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Execshield improvements. (Bart Oldeman)
- Disable PM_DEBUG
* Thu Sep 28 2006 Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
- utrace typo fix for x86-64 watchpoints (#207467)
* Thu Sep 28 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Fix ISAPNP messages on ppc32. (#207641)
* Thu Sep 28 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Another day, another round of lockdep fixes.
- Align kernel data segment to page boundary. (#206863)
* Thu Sep 28 2006 Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
- New GFS2 patch
* Thu Sep 28 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Fix "kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:2789!" bug
* Wed Sep 27 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- yet more lockdep fixes.
- Fix a problem with XFS & the inode diet patches.
- Fix rpc_pipefs umount oops
- Enable alternative TCP congestion algorithms.
* Tue Sep 26 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Enable serverworks IDE driver for x86-64.
- More lockdep fixes.
* Mon Sep 25 2006 Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com>
- Make kernel packages own initrd files
* Mon Sep 25 2006 John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com>
- Add periodic work fix for bcm43xx driver
* Sat Sep 23 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Disable dgrs driver.
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- reiserfs: make sure all dentry refs are released before
calling kill_block_super
- Fix up some compile warnings
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
- re-enable xen.
- update xen:
* linux-2.6 changeset: 34294:dc1d277d06e0
* linux-2.6-xen-fedora changeset: 36184:47c098fdce14
* xen-unstable changeset: 11540:9837ff37e354
- update xen HV to changeset: 11540:9837ff37e354
- xen HV printf rate limit (rostedt).
* Wed Sep 20 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- 2.6.18
- i965 AGP suspend support.
- AGP x8 fixes.
* Tue Sep 19 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
- updated xen configs to sync with rawhide ones (don't be afraid, xen0/xenU
still around).
- xen update.
* linux-2.6 changeset: 34228:ea3369ba1e2c
* linux-2.6-xen-fedora changeset: 36109:eefcfd07d102
* linux-2.6-xen changeset: 22905:d8ae02f7df05
* xen-unstable changeset: 11460:1ece34466781ec55f41fd29d53f6dafd208ba2fa
* Mon Sep 18 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Bring back 586smp
- Fix RTC lockdep bug. (Peter Zijlstra)
* Mon Sep 18 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
- xen HV update (cset 11470:2b8dc69744e3).
* Sun Sep 17 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
- xen update:
* linux-2.6 changeset: 34228:ea3369ba1e2c
* linux-2.6-xen-fedora changeset: 36107:47256dbb1583
* linux-2.6-xen changeset: 22905:d8ae02f7df05
* xen-unstable changeset: 11460:1ece34466781ec55f41fd29d53f6dafd208ba2fa
* Sun Sep 17 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Rebase to 2.6.18rc7-git2
* Mon Sep 11 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> [2.6.17-1.2187_FC5]
- Add quirk for Samsung mp3 player. (#198128)
* Sun Sep 10 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Fix up mismerge in USB storage driver.
* Sat Sep 9 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- 2.6.17.13
* Fri Sep 8 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- 2.6.17.12
* Thu Aug 24 2006 Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com>
- update to 2.6.17.11
* Tue Aug 22 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
- update to 2.6.17.10«
* Tue Aug 15 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
- linux-2.6-xen update
* linux-2.6.17-xen cset changeset: 29033:e6adb54afb96
* linux-2.6-xen cset 22813:80c2ccf5c330
- s/xen_version/xen_hv_cset/ as Fedora.
- update xen hv to cset 11061.
* Mon Aug 7 2006 Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
- Drop iscsi update patch.
* Mon Aug 7 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- 2.6.17.8
* Fri Aug 4 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Fix split lock patch for 64bit.
* Fri Aug 4 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> [2.6.17-1.2171_FC5]
- 2.6.17.8rc1
* Wed Aug 2 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Readd patch to allow 460800 baud on 16C950 UARTs
* Sat Jul 29 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Silence noisy SCSI ioctl. (#200638)
* Fri Jul 28 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- 2.6.17.7
* Thu Jul 27 2006 Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
- reduce hypervisor stack use with -O2, this really fixes bug (#198932)
* Tue Jul 25 2006 Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
- disable debug=y hypervisor build option because of stack overflow (#198932)
* Tue Jul 25 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Enable serio_raw (#199387)
* Sun Jul 16 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Support up to 4GB in the 586 kernel again.
* Sun Jul 16 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- 2.6.17.6
* Fri Jul 14 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Reenable SMC NIC driver.
* Tue Jul 11 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- 2.6.17.4
- Disable split pagetable lock
* Sat Jul 8 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
- enable CONFIG_CRASH on xen kernels.
- enable CONFIG_PCIDEV_BACKEND on xen kernels.
- make BLKDEV_FRONTEND a module on xen kernels.
- rebase with linux-2.6-xen-fedora 28918.
- Update to xen-unstable HV cset 10508.
- xen: credit scheduler is the default now.
* Wed Jul 5 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Get rid of stack backtrace on panic, which in most
cases actually caused a loss of info instead of a gain.
* Tue Jul 4 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
- new merge with xen upstream.
- xen kernel don't require xen userland.
- new xen kernel (same as rawhide one) with PAE support.
- removed xen0-PAE & xenU-PAE (see xen kernel).
* Fri Jun 30 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- 2.6.17.3
- 2.6.17.2
- Fix the ALSA list_add bug.
* Mon Jun 26 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Enable fake PCI hotplug driver. (#190437)
- Enable gameport/joystick on i586 builds. (#196581)
* Sat Jun 24 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Enable profiling for 586 kernels.
* Fri Jun 23 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Make 'quiet' work again.
* Tue Jun 20 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> [2.6.17-1.2139_FC5]
- Rebuild with slab debug off.
* Tue Jun 20 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> [2.6.17-1.2138_FC5]
- 2.6.17.1
* Sun Jun 18 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- 2.6.17
- Only print info about SMP alternatives on SMP kernels.
* Tue Jun 6 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> [2.6.16-1.2133_FC5]
- Add a PPC64 kdump kernel.
* Mon Jun 5 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> [2.6.16-1.2132_FC5]
- 2.6.16.20
* Thu Jun 1 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Reenable Xen builds.
* Tue May 30 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- 2.6.16.19
* Sun May 28 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Fix unresolved symbol. (#193333)
* Sat May 27 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Improve list corruption debugging patch.
* Fri May 26 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Remove xenU initrd's when kernel is removed.
* Fri May 26 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
- Remove ARCH=xen reminiscences on spec file
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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/
7d65547d3976ad69fe8f88a0e5a7f31fc4e193d2 SRPMS/kernel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.src.rpm
7d65547d3976ad69fe8f88a0e5a7f31fc4e193d2 noarch/kernel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.src.rpm
dcedb8e5e6302178db6b08c3980261c24398c3d2 ppc/kernel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.ppc.rpm
3b952abccf2ee28d861a4a8131bfb863e539070b ppc/kernel-smp-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.ppc.rpm
5a99bf0c0e77a7ae08c11174a5859f708a229213 ppc/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.ppc.rpm
b7e16f24f566fa3c19a2a89339afb5de2dbe629a ppc/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.ppc.rpm
2a28272783d7b1dadf792dfea8293e20d74bf902 ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.ppc.rpm
2f9b5b6ed9d70f9fe7db317422505cb40ef47ce4 ppc/kernel-doc-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.noarch.rpm
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7e817ef4369405288e17f95029e148cc09d2933b i386/kernel-smp-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i586.rpm
7c8d7af761b7f00707e680441ca8de600dedb98e i386/kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i586.rpm
7bf8137bc453c91aaa106377b632f607fb5d2e5e i386/kernel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i586.rpm
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321efb15af1428518f165c980f69d656a163b7d4 i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i586.rpm
5cdf059b8f6f42847887061dba20057d01e8120c i386/kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm
b78a651d0e4356e694ae6ab4c936a295eeac8756 i386/kernel-xen0-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm
217b6dae49d9aed4c53cd95e3444965c582cdba9 i386/kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm
805af7afd8abc7b21741af17ffd50eda814b9797 i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm
5af8bc6f9164efc548f41058ad72909c6bc239b3 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm
9d0d9f40c7c585f7c3cc543bad3b591a4c2c4ebb i386/kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm
4b278b82af45cd6477b8b8c97c06b45463fca01a i386/kernel-smp-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm
f28438e3d20fe618db3f12beb37d4eea6d64f464 i386/kernel-kdump-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm
4222c75303242de7c673a2b7003049291f4c766e i386/kernel-xenU-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm
66106543dd5fee76953ef0912ea1760b547e96e2 i386/kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm
7bc3c9db610cbfb20b18936360b7ff309dff7863 i386/kernel-xen0-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm
04d4058598cfce70fecd69c24b2124a98230449b i386/kernel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm
4a754a8d084e74afefd73e47f6ae8f620670aa51 i386/kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.i686.rpm
2f9b5b6ed9d70f9fe7db317422505cb40ef47ce4 i386/kernel-doc-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.noarch.rpm
This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.
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