[El-errata] ELSA-2006:0710 Enterprise Linux 3 kernel security update

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Thu Mar 22 22:16:09 PDT 2007


Enterprise Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2006:0710

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0710.html

The following updated rpms for Enterprise Linux 3 have been uploaded to 
the Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
kernel-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.athlon.rpm
kernel-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-BOOT-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.i386.rpm
kernel-doc-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.i386.rpm
kernel-hugemem-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-hugemem-unsupported-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.athlon.rpm
kernel-smp-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.athlon.rpm
kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-source-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.i386.rpm
kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.athlon.rpm
kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.ia32e.rpm
kernel-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-source-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.ia32e.rpm
kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el3/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.src.rpm

The following packages were rebuilt to be in sync with the updated 
kernel version:


i386:
oracleasm-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL-1.0.5-1.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.4.21-47.0.1.ELhugemem-1.0.5-1.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp-1.0.5-1.i686.rpm

x86_64:
oracleasm-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL-1.0.5-1.ia32e.rpm
oracleasm-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL-1.0.5-1.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp-1.0.5-1.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el3/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL-1.0.5-1.src.rpm

Description of changes:

[2.4.21-47.0.1.EL]
- fix buflen assignment for DVD BDA read requests (Chip Coldwell)
- prevent write permission w/read-only shm segments (Ernie Petrides)
- fix clock drift by disabling C1 clock ramping on AMD (Prarit Bhargava)
- prevent possible deadlock with shmat()/shm-rmid races (Sachin Prabhu)
- prevent smbfs chroot hole by prohibiting backslashes (Peter Staubach)
- prevent potential memory corruption from ATM/clip_mkip() (Thomas Graf)
- add zero-padding logic for s390,x copy_from_user() faults (Jan Glauber)





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