[El-errata] ELSA-2009-0331 Important: Enterprise Linux 4 kernel security and bug fix update

Fri Mar 13 10:54:16 PDT 2009

Enterprise Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2009-0331

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0331.html

The following updated rpms for Enterprise Linux 4 have been uploaded to 
the Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL.src.rpm

The following packages were rebuilt to be in sync with the updated 
kernel version (no changes other than updating the version number):

i386:
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELhugemem-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELhugemem-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm

x86_64:
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm

Description of changes:

[2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL]
- fix entropy flag in bnx2 driver to generate entropy pool (John Sobecki)
  [orabug 5931647]
- fix skb alignment that was causing sendto() to fail with EFAULT (Olaf 
Kirch)
  [orabug 6845794]
- fix  enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc (Zach Brown) [orabug 
5486128]
- fix per_cpu() api bug_on with rds (Zach Brown) [orabug 5760648]
- backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread (Guru Anbalagane)
  [orabug 6125546]
- netrx/netpoll race avoidance (Tina Yang) [orabug 6143381]
- fix guest spinning in xen (Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 7004010]
- fix serial port lock recursion (Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 6761872]
- [XEN] Fix elf_core_dump (Tina Yang) [orabug 6995928]
- fix in nfs_attribute_timeout() (Trond Myklebust) [orabug 7378108]
- use lfence instead of cpuid instruction to implement memory barriers
  (Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 7452412]
- add netpoll support to xen netfront (Tina Yang) [orabz 7261]
- [xen] execshield: fix endless GPF fault loop (Stephen Tweedie) [orabug 
7175395]
- port Red Hat bug 472572: HVM crash in net/core/dev.c during boot 
[orabug 7653948]
  The following Red Hat patches were ported from the source RPM at:

http://people.redhat.com/vgoyal/rhel4/SRPMS.kernel/kernel-2.6.9-78.22.EL.src.rpm
    linux-2.6.9-xen-fix-netfront-mem-leak.patch
    linux-2.6.9-xen-xen-vnif-stops-working-on-reception-of-duplicat.patch
    linux-2.6.9-xen-guest-will-crash-if-rtl8139-nic-is-only-one-spe.patch
- fix kernel null dereference in ap_suspend() during migration [orabug 
7635625]
  Ported from the el5u2 xenpv-0.1-9.0.1.el5 patch
  ovs-bugz7262-fix-migration-hang-due-to-write-lock-starvation.patch.
  In el5u2, the fix is to the xenpv driver.  For el4u7, the xenpv driver
  was moved into the kernel.
- port el4u6 xenpv patch (orabug 7442030) for live migration hang
  [orabug 7458244]
- [xen]: port el5u2 patch that allows 64-bit PVHVM guest to boot with 
32-bit
  dom0 [orabug 7452107]
- [mm] update shrink_zone patch to allow 100% swap utilization (John 
Sobecki,
  Chris Mason, Chuck Anderson, Dave McCracken) [orabug 7566319,6086839]
- [nfs] update fix for attribute caching when using actimeo=0 (Chuck Lever,
  John Sobecki) [ORABUG 7131141,7156607,7388056] [RHBZ 446083,476726]
- [kernel] backport report_lost_ticks patch from EL5.2 (John Sobecki)
  [orabug 6110605]

[2.6.9-78.0.17]
-respin: added missing patches from build 78.0.15

[2.6.9-78.0.16]
-revert: nmi watchdog: move check_nmi_watchdog to later in boot time 
(Aristeu Rozanski) [479184 458859]

[2.6.9-78.0.15]
-fix a buffer overflow vulnerability with del_rbu driver (Don Howard) 
[482939 482940] {CVE-2009-0322}
-security: introduce missing kfree (Jiri Pirko) [480595 480596] 
{CVE-2009-0031}
-xen: add spurious fault handling to rhel4 xen (Chris Lalancette) 
[483748 465914]

[2.6.9-78.0.14]
-net: fix race between poll_napi and net_rx_action (Andy Gospodarek) 
[475970 463815]
-netpoll: fix race condition between net_rx_action and poll_napi that 
can result in garbage device (Neil Horman) [480741 474479]
-net: fix double list_del in net_rx_action (Neil Horman) [479681 477202]
-fs: fix "it already cleared for block"  errors (Josef Bacik) [476533 
460179]
-iptables: fix oops on module unload (Neil Horman) [477147 456664]
-pidhashing: fix alloc_pidmap (Jiri Pirko) [479182 461246]
-nmi watchdog: move check_nmi_watchdog to later in boot time (Aristeu 
Rozanski) [479184 458859]
-sctp: memory overflow when fwd tsn chunk is received with bad stream id 
(Eugene Teo) [478959 478960] {CVE-2009-0065}
-kernel: enforce a minimum sg_io timeout (Eugene Teo) [475403 475404]