[El-errata] ELSA-2008-0612 Important: Enterprise Linux 5 kernel security and bug fix update

Errata Announcements for Enterprise Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Tue Aug 5 11:52:02 PDT 2008


Enterprise Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2008-0612

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0612.html

The following updated rpms for Enterprise Linux 5 have been uploaded to 
the Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
kernel-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5.i386.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5.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-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5-2.0.4-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5PAE-2.0.4-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5xen-2.0.4-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5debug-2.0.4-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5-1.2.9-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5PAE-1.2.9-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5xen-1.2.9-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5debug-1.2.9-1.el5.i686.rpm

x86_64:
oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5-2.0.4-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5xen-2.0.4-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5debug-2.0.4-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5-1.2.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5xen-1.2.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5debug-1.2.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5-2.0.4-1.el5.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5-1.2.9-1.el5.src.rpm

Description of changes:

[2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5]
- [NET] Add entropy support to e1000 and bnx2 (John Sobecki) [orabug 
6045759]
- [splice] Fix bad unlock_page() in error case (Jens Axboe) [orabug 6263574]
- [dio] fix error-path crashes (Linus Torvalds) [orabug 6242289]
- [NET] fix netpoll race (Tina Yang) [orabugz 5791]

[2.6.18-92.1.10.el5]
- [ia64] softlock: prevent endless warnings in kdump (Neil Horman ) 
[456117 453200]

[2.6.18-92.1.9.el5]
- [misc] signaling msgrvc() should not pass back error (Jiri Pirko ) 
[455278 452533]
- [ia64] properly unregister legacy interrupts (Prarit Bhargava ) 
[450337 445886]

[2.6.18-92.1.8.el5]
- [net] randomize udp port allocation (Eugene Teo ) [454571 454572]
- [tty] add NULL pointer checks (Aristeu Rozanski ) [453425 453154] 
{CVE-2008-2812}
- [net] sctp: make sure sctp_addr does not overflow (David S. Miller ) 
[452482 452483] {CVE-2008-2826}
- [sys] sys_setrlimit: prevent setting RLIMIT_CPU to 0 (Neil Horman ) 
[437121 437122] {CVE-2008-1294}
- [net] sit: exploitable remote memory leak (Jiri Pirko ) [446038 
446039] {CVE-2008-2136}
- [misc] ttyS1 lost interrupt, stops transmitting v2 (Brian Maly ) 
[455256 451157]
- [misc] ttyS1 loses interrupt and stops transmitting (Simon McGrath ) 
[443071 440121]

[2.6.18-92.1.7.el5]
- [x86_64]: extend MCE banks support for Dunnington, Nehalem (Prarit 
Bhargava ) [451941 446673]
- [nfs] address nfs rewrite performance regression in RHEL5 (Eric 
Sandeen ) [448685 436004]
- [mm] Make mmap() with PROT_WRITE on RHEL5 (Larry Woodman ) [450758 448978]
- [i386]: Add check for supported_cpus in powernow_k8 driver (Prarit 
Bhargava ) [450866 443853]
- [i386]: Add check for dmi_data in powernow_k8 driver (Prarit Bhargava 
) [450866 443853]
- [net] fix recv return zero (Thomas Graf ) [452231 435657]
- [misc] kernel crashes on futex (Anton Arapov ) [450336 435178]
- [net] Fixing bonding rtnl_lock screwups (Fabio Olive Leite ) [451939 
450219]





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