[SECURITY] Fedora Core 5 Update: kernel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sun May 21 22:24:37 UTC 2006 

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-572
2006-05-21
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Product     : Fedora Core 5
Name        : kernel
Version     : 2.6.16                      
Release     : 1.2122_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 the latest upstream -stable release
(2.6.16.17), where a number of security problems have been
fixed, notably:

SCTP: Validate the parameter length in HB-ACK chunk
(CVE-2006-1857)
SCTP: Respect the real chunk length when walking parameters
(CVE-2006-1858)
fs/locks.c: Fix lease_init (CVE-2006-1860)
SCTP: Fix state table entries for chunks received in CLOSED
state. (CVE-2006-2271)
SCTP: Fix panic's when receiving fragmented SCTP control
chunks. (CVE-2006-2272)
SCTP: Prevent possible infinite recursion with multiple
bundled DATA. (CVE-2006-2274)
SCTP: Allow spillover of receive buffer to avoid deadlock.
(CVE-2006-2275)


Complete changelogs for the -stable releases can be found at

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.17
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.16
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.15

Fedora specific changes are detailed below.

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* Sun May 21 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.16-1.2122_FC5]
- Remove noisy 'syscall not implemented' message from x86-64.
* Sun May 21 2006 David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at redhat.com> [2.6.16-1.2120_FC5]
- Avoid thermal shutdown on some G5 machines.
- Make i386 two-minute delay on oops optional (oopsdelay= option)
* Sat May 20 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.16-1.2119_FC5]
- 2.6.16.17
* Thu May 11 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela at redhat.com> [2.6.16-1.2118_FC5]
- merge with 3.0.2 xen (cset 9668)
- add xen hypervisor to match it
* Wed May 10 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- 2.6.16.16
* Tue May  9 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- 2.6.16.15
- Fix exec-shield default, which should fix a few programs that
  stopped running.
* Sat May  6 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Enable ATM in 586 kernels (#190202)

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This update can be downloaded from:
  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/

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4db29f3d875a956649529d9dfd151b7e3fcf137d  ppc/kernel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.ppc.rpm
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4b4a282e5dc72ef9787449bd559edc82bddb7044  i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm
c7375e2ea5de689fd93303f997a4823e7d1aaa08  i386/kernel-xen0-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm
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e5b4a0a60cfc8ab1116b47060e9f285d5c0ed928  i386/kernel-xenU-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm
949bc92598b6df4d5663533c077e52b4f7dc7a9f  i386/kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm
00f5f257b7cf32a5e9916e46daaef410de562178  i386/kernel-kdump-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm
dd55afffcd8e6ad93770d9439a6beb4af451c1be  i386/kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm
6b152c758ce31130ba5689bb6d47b5bd361d6f7b  i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm
07694531537d930abffcf0fb26bd66dab55e5a1f  i386/kernel-doc-2.6.16-1.2122_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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