[El-errata] ELSA-2009-1211 Important: Enterprise Linux 4 kernel security and bug fix update

Thu Aug 13 21:59:09 PDT 2009

Enterprise Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2009-1211

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1211.html

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

i386:
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.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-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELhugemem-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELhugemem-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm

x86_64:
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm

Description of changes:

[2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL]
- 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]
- backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread (Guru Anbalagane)
  [orabug 6125546]
- netrx/netpoll race avoidance (Tina Yang) [orabug 6143381]
- [XEN] Fix elf_core_dump (Tina Yang) [orabug 6995928]
- 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]
- [xen]: port el5u2 patch that allows 64-bit PVHVM guest to boot with 32-bit
  dom0 [orabug 7452107] xenstore
- [mm] update shrink_zone patch to allow 100% swap utilization (John 
Sobecki,
  Chris Mason, Chuck Anderson, Dave McCracken) [orabug 7566319,6086839]
- [kernel] backport report_lost_ticks patch from EL5.2 (John Sobecki)
  [orabug 6110605]
- [xen] fix for hung JVM thread after #GPF [orabug 7916406] (Chuck Anderson)
- port EL5U3 patch to adjust totalhigh_pages in the balloon driver 
[orabug 8300888]
- check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change (Chuck 
Anderson) [orabug7556514]
- [XEN] use hypercall to fixmap pte updates (Mukesh Rathor) [orabug 8433329]
- [XEN] Extend physical mask to 40bit for machine above 64G [orabug 8312526]

[2.6.9-89.0.7]
-Revert: eliminate deadlock with echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches 
(Larry Woodman) [505649 495861]

[2.6.9-89.0.6]
-r8169: fix crash when large packets are received (Ivan Vecera) [504729 
504730] {CVE-2009-1389}
-block: block initialize request struct (Tomas Henzl) [513189 505506]
-scsi: do not fastfail device errors (Mike Christie) [514007 505122]

[2.6.9-89.0.5]
-mm: clear hugeptes properly (James Paradis) [513182 497204]
-block: protect the per gendisk partition array with rcu (Jeff Moyer) 
[512310 495858]

[2.6.9-89.0.4]
-cifs: fix unicode alignment and buffer sizing problems (Jeff Layton) 
[494277 494278] {CVE-2009-1439}
-cifs: fix potential buffer overruns when converting strings (Jeff 
Layton) [496574 496575] {CVE-2009-1633}
-eliminate deadlock with echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches (Larry 
Woodman) [505649 495861]
-net: bonding: select current active slave when enslaving device for 
mode tlb and alb (Jiri Pirko) [507563 500637]
-fix cast in time keeping code (Prarit Bhargava) [508835 491147]