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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-801
2006-07-14
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Product     : Fedora Core 4
Name        : kernel
Version     : 2.6.17
Release     : 1.2142_FC4
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:

Rebase to latest upstream 2.6.17.4 -stable release, which
fixes a security issue which could result in local
priveledge escalation.

More details at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17.4

In addition, an optimisation was performed to use
significantly less memory for several heavily used kernel
data structures.

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* Tue Jul 11 2006 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> [2.6.17-1.2142_FC4]
- 2.6.17.4
- Disable split pagetable lock.
* 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.

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This update can be downloaded from:
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/

b38262c22f4d45c00f071a94bdb6f8c7cc8902c7  SRPMS/kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.src.rpm
b38262c22f4d45c00f071a94bdb6f8c7cc8902c7  noarch/kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.src.rpm
ae698f795c7028cdacebcba32b17e3cb78f8bd51  ppc/kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.ppc.rpm
3099877391a7b4373834b9e0f08dcbb1eaf1f8d7  ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.ppc.rpm
51667ce89e7552177bc116e1865178ded1f87d69  ppc/kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.ppc.rpm
bc2b7bd5d1fe8222dbeca13adbf7f3db61e73a85  ppc/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.ppc.rpm
f11130d6afe995f9b914498e2b9aadc2a0f2c7aa  ppc/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.ppc.rpm
9e9c90f3d0a645ce1c8ba6594d50bbc7dcd27711  ppc/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.noarch.rpm
9ac7cc0f348d3ed173d34ed96a3c7ca5998ecca8  x86_64/kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.x86_64.rpm
62b0bf3090e9580fc47259f296b69d9da6fd07ed  x86_64/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.x86_64.rpm
547a17f0478d6621ebe0068fe80e8d15d344b294  x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.x86_64.rpm
96790614ed5660bce238372e68e5240c332c9f45  x86_64/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.x86_64.rpm
0356dd529353a2b73dad34310d83d366ec584211  x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.x86_64.rpm
9e9c90f3d0a645ce1c8ba6594d50bbc7dcd27711  x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.noarch.rpm
e9cd4a89a0f8e4863321010158782592f87b3e22  i386/kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i586.rpm
bbd9366f7416101e8cf7787e5206a050d286fbea  i386/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i586.rpm
51f9dfde3d90a90333ca0f0572d4bdd5e0566cd1  i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i586.rpm
3d7b9d935b38a7991c8604d7871a362583226410  i386/kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i686.rpm
dbab8020601bc572b12cf659ec3bc499dd44bcae  i386/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i686.rpm
630c2ce6358e5dafb62b508719fc2c8c3de8ef13  i386/kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i686.rpm
19eaf99d970ed76f9a5b4130eefdf2dd66de5e01  i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i686.rpm
9ff3c5bcb255ec8b04b8f90f45f42b1561e13a0c  i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i686.rpm
9e9c90f3d0a645ce1c8ba6594d50bbc7dcd27711  i386/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.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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