[El-errata] ELSA-2008-1017 Important: Enterprise Linux 5 kernel security and bug fix update

Wed Dec 17 21:33:41 PST 2008

Enterprise Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2008-1017

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1017.html

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

i386:
kernel-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5.i386.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.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-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5PAE-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5-1.2.9-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5PAE-1.2.9-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5xen-1.2.9-1.el5.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5debug-1.2.9-1.el5.i686.rpm
ofa-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5-1.3.1-5.20080603.i686.rpm (rds channels)
ofa-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5PAE-1.3.1-5.20080603.i686.rpm (rds channels)
ofa-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5xen-1.3.1-5.20080603.i686.rpm (rds channels)
ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5-1.4.1-1.el5.i686.rpm (ocfs2 channels)
ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5PAE-1.4.1-1.el5.i686.rpm (ocfs2 channels)
ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5xen-1.4.1-1.el5.i686.rpm (ocfs2 channels)
ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5debug-1.4.1-1.el5.i686.rpm (ocfs2 channels)

x86_64:
oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5-1.2.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5xen-1.2.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5debug-1.2.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
ofa-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5-1.3.1-5.20080603.x86_64.rpm (rds channels)
ofa-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5xen-1.3.1-5.20080603.x86_64.rpm (rds channels)
ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5-1.4.1-1.el5.x86_64.rpm (ocfs2 channels)
ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5xen-1.4.1-1.el5.x86_64.rpm (ocfs2 channels)
ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5debug-1.4.1-1.el5.x86_64.rpm (ocfs2 channels)

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5-1.2.9-1.el5.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/ofa-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5-1.3.1-5.20080603.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5-1.4.1-1.el5.src.rpm

Description of changes:

[2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5]
- [net] Add entropy support to e1000 and bnx2 (John Sobecki) [orabug 
6045759]
- [net] Add xen pv/bonding  netconsole support (Tina yang) [orabug 
6993043] [bz 7258]
- [mm] shrink zone patch (John Sobecki,Chris Mason) [orabug 6086839]
- [nfs] nfs attribute timeout fix (Trond Myklebust) [orabug 7156607] 
[RHBZ 446083]
- [xen] execshield: fix endless GPF fault loop (Stephen Tweedie) [orabug 
7175395]

[2.6.18-92.1.22.el5]
- [misc] hugepages: ia64 stack overflow and corrupt memory (Larry 
Woodman ) [474347 472802]
- [misc] allow hugepage allocation to use most of memory (Larry Woodman 
) [474760 438889]

[2.6.18-92.1.21.el5]
- [misc] rtc: disable SIGIO notification on close (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) 
[465746 465747]

[2.6.18-92.1.20.el5]
- [input] atkbd: cancel delayed work before freeing struct (Jiri Pirko ) 
[461232 461233]
- [drm] i915 driver arbitrary ioremap (Eugene Teo ) [464508 464509] 
{CVE-2008-3831}
- [fs] don't allow splice to files opened with O_APPEND (Eugene Teo ) 
[466709 466710] {CVE-2008-4554}
- [xen] x86: allow the kernel to boot on pre-64 bit hw (Chris Lalancette 
) [470040 468083]
- [net] ipv4: fix byte value boundary check (Jiri Pirko ) [469649 468148]
- [ia64] fix ptrace hangs when following threads (Denys Vlasenko ) 
[469150 461456]
- [net] sctp: INIT-ACK indicates no AUTH peer support oops (Eugene Teo ) 
[466081 466082] {CVE-2008-4576}
- [input] atkbd: delay executing of LED switching request (Jiri Pirko ) 
[461232 461233]
- [xen] ia64: make viosapic SMP-safe by adding lock/unlock (Tetsu 
Yamamoto ) [467727 466552]
- [xen] allow guests to hide the TSC from applications (Chris Lalancette 
) [378471 378481] {CVE-2007-5907
}
- [nfs] v4: don't reuse expired nfs4_state_owner structs (Jeff Layton ) 
[469650 441884]
- [nfs] v4: credential ref leak in nfs4_get_state_owner (Jeff Layton ) 
[469650 441884]
- [nfs] v4: Poll aggressively when handling NFS4ERR_DELAY (Jeff Layton ) 
[469650 441884]
- [xen] ia64: speed up hypercall for guest domain creation (Tetsu 
Yamamoto ) [459080 456171]
- [xen] use unlocked_ioctl in evtchn, gntdev and privcmd (Tetsu Yamamoto 
) [459080 456171]
- [xen] page scrub: serialise softirq with a new lock (Tetsu Yamamoto ) 
[459080 456171]
- [xen] serialize scrubbing pages (Tetsu Yamamoto ) [459080 456171]
- [nfs] pages of a memory mapped file get corrupted (Peter Staubach ) 
[450335 435291]
- [x86_64] xen: fix syscall return when tracing (Chris Lalancette ) 
[470853 453394]

[2.6.18-92.1.19.el5]
- Revert: [xen] allow guests to hide the TSC from applications (Chris 
Lalancette ) [378471 378481] {CVE-2
007-5907}
- Revert: [xen] x86: allow the kernel to boot on pre-64 bit hw (Chris 
Lalancette ) [470040 468083]

[2.6.18-92.1.18.el5]
- [xen] x86: allow the kernel to boot on pre-64 bit hw (Chris Lalancette 
) [470040 468083]