[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: kernel-3.7.6-201.fc18
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Fri Feb 8 16:56:42 UTC 2013
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-1961
2013-02-05 16:16:38
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Name : kernel
Product : Fedora 18
Version : 3.7.6
Release : 201.fc18
URL : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary : The Linux kernel
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:
Update to the latest stable upstream kernel release, v3.7.6. Fixes across the tree.
Adds support for the Cypress PS/2 trackpad
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Feb 4 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Linux v3.7.6
- Update secure-boot patchset
- Fix rtlwifi scheduling while atomic from Larry Finger (rhbz 903881)
* Tue Jan 29 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Backport driver for Cypress PS/2 trackpad (rhbz 799564)
* Mon Jan 28 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> - 3.7.5-201
- Linux v3.7.5
- Add patch to fix iwlwifi issues (rhbz 863424)
* Sun Jan 27 2013 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at fedoraproject.org>
- Build and package dtbs on ARM
- Enable FB options for qemu vexpress on unified
* Fri Jan 25 2013 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at redhat.com>
- Turn off THP for 32bit
* Wed Jan 23 2013 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at redhat.com> - 3.7.4-204
- brcmsmac fixes from upstream (rhbz 892428)
* Wed Jan 23 2013 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Remove warnings about empty IPI masks.
* Tue Jan 22 2013 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at redhat.com> - 3.7.4-203
- Add i915 bugfix from airlied
* Tue Jan 22 2013 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at fedoraproject.org>
- Apply ARM errata fix
- disable HVC_DCC and VIRTIO_CONSOLE on ARM
* Tue Jan 22 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Fix libata settings bug (rhbz 902523)
* Mon Jan 21 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> - 3.7.4-201
- Linux v3.7.4
* Fri Jan 18 2013 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at redhat.com> 3.7.3-201
- Linux v3.7.3
* Thu Jan 17 2013 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at fedoraproject.org>
- Merge 3.7 ARM kernel including unified kernel
- Drop separate IMX and highbank kernels
- Disable ARM PL310 errata that crash highbank
* Wed Jan 16 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Fix power management sysfs on non-secure boot machines (rhbz 896243)
* Wed Jan 16 2013 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at redhat.com> 3.7.2-204
- Fix for CVE-2013-0190 xen corruption with 32bit pvops (rhbz 896051 896038)
* Wed Jan 16 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Add patch from Stanislaw Gruszka to fix iwlegacy IBSS cleanup (rhbz 886946)
* Tue Jan 15 2013 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at redhat.com> 3.7.2-203
- Turn off Intel IOMMU by default
- Stable queue from 3.7.3 with many relevant fixes
* Tue Jan 15 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Enable CONFIG_DVB_USB_V2 (rhbz 895460)
* Mon Jan 14 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Enable Orinoco drivers in kernel-modules-extra (rhbz 894069)
* Fri Jan 11 2013 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at redhat.com> 3.7.1-1
- Linux v3.7.2
- Enable Intel IOMMU by default
* Thu Jan 10 2013 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Add audit-libs-devel to perf build-deps to enable trace command. (rhbz 892893)
* Tue Jan 8 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Add patch to fix shutdown on some machines (rhbz 890547)
* Mon Jan 7 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Patch to fix efivarfs underflow from Lingzhu Xiang (rhbz 888163)
* Sun Jan 6 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Fix version.h include due to UAPI change in 3.7 (rhbz 892373)
* Fri Jan 4 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Fix oops on aoe module removal (rhbz 853064)
* Thu Jan 3 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> - 3.7.1-2
- Fixup secure boot patchset for 3.7 rebase
- Package bash completion script for perf
* Thu Jan 3 2013 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Rebase to 3.7.1
* Wed Jan 2 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Fix autofs issue in 3.6 (rhbz 874372)
- BR the hostname package (rhbz 886113)
* Mon Dec 17 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> - 3.6.11-3
- Linux v3.6.11
* Mon Dec 17 2012 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us>
- disable gpiolib on vexpress
* Mon Dec 17 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Fix oops in sony-laptop setup (rhbz 873107)
* Wed Dec 12 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> - 3.6.10-5
- Fix infinite loop in efi signature parser
- Don't error out if db doesn't exist
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #908693 - CVE-2013-0268 kernel: x86/msr: /dev/cpu/*/msr local privilege escalation
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908693
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update kernel' at the command line.
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