[SECURITY] Fedora Core 3 Test Update: kernel-2.6.12-1.1375_FC3

[Dave Jones]

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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-797
2005-08-24
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Product     : Fedora Core 3
Name        : kernel
Version     : 2.6.12                      
Release     : 1.1375_FC3                  
Summary     : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system).
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of
the Red Hat 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 kernel update rebases to the latest stable snapshot
(2.6.12.5), which contains a number of minor security fixes. 
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* Tue Aug 23 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.12-1.1375_FC3]
- Work around AMD x86-64 errata 122.

* Thu Aug 18 2005 David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at redhat.com>
- Don't probe 8250 ports on ppc32 unless they're in the device tree
- Enable ISDN, 8250 console, i8042 keyboard controller on ppc32
- Audit updates from git tree

* Tue Aug 16 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.12-1.1374_FC3]
- Restrict ipsec socket policy loading to CAP_NET_ADMIN. (CAN-2005-2555)

* Mon Aug 15 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- 2.6.11.5
- Fix module_verify_elf check that rejected valid .ko files. (#165528)

* Thu Aug 11 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Audit speedup in syscall path.
- Update to a newer ACPI drop.

* Wed Aug 10 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Reenable 586-smp builds. (Another FC4 change that crept in).

* Fri Aug  5 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.12-1.1373_FC3]
- Sync with FC4 update.
- Add Appletouch support.
- Audit updates. In particular, don't printk audit messages that
  are passed from userspace when auditing is disabled.
- update to final 2.6.12.4 patchset.
- ACPI update to 20050729.
- Disable experimental ACPI HOTKEY driver. (#163355)

* Thu Aug  4 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Enable Amiga partition support. (#149802)

* Wed Aug  3 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> 
- Silence some messages from PowerMac thermal driver. (#158739)
- nfs server intermitently claimed ENOENT on existing files or directories. (#150759)
- Stop usbhid driver incorrectly claiming Wireless Security Lock as a mouse. (#147479)
- Further NFSD fixing for non-standard ports.
- Fix up miscalculated i_nlink in /proc (#162418)
- Fix addrlen checks in selinux_socket_connect. (#164165)

* Thu Jul 28 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Fix compilation with older gcc. (#164041)
- Bump mkinitrd minimum requirement.
- Drop the -devel changes that leaked in from the FC4 backport. (#163406)


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

8aca9c9f4e6c6bdeafa48fd469687b1c  SRPMS/kernel-2.6.12-1.1375_FC3.src.rpm
c825e4256cb8576dd2369bdca3bf9ae3  x86_64/kernel-2.6.12-1.1375_FC3.x86_64.rpm
11eb7c564d683074dfc68e48d902122c  x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1375_FC3.x86_64.rpm
12dad19201fd6706c0cd5ae575caf33d  x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.12-1.1375_FC3.x86_64.rpm
45787379d057738842413e26249778da  x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.12-1.1375_FC3.noarch.rpm
57aa93be4c07d22c821d773a8e9b1e17  i386/kernel-2.6.12-1.1375_FC3.i586.rpm
3ffe7aff7575f089f69b507d4a60a63e  i386/kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1375_FC3.i586.rpm
c4bb5389f9eeec9627a7199f8d77838f  i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.12-1.1375_FC3.i586.rpm
55193ed8b5a863ef449bdc05813a31f2  i386/kernel-2.6.12-1.1375_FC3.i686.rpm
4049735f91f017c7ebb69ff3d933d770  i386/kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1375_FC3.i686.rpm
1bcc0245fe95cbf5aa1668a67ef28671  i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.12-1.1375_FC3.i686.rpm
45787379d057738842413e26249778da  i386/kernel-doc-2.6.12-1.1375_FC3.noarch.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.  You may 
need to edit your up2date channels configuration.  Within 
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources enable the following line: 
yum updates-testing http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/3/$ARCH
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