[El-errata] ELSA-2009-1132 Important: Enterprise Linux 4 kernel security and bug fix update

Wed Jul 1 19:07:10 PDT 2009

Enterprise Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2009-1132

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1132.html

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

i386:
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.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-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.ELhugemem-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.ELhugemem-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm

x86_64:
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm

Description of changes:

[2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.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]
- fix oops in show_partition using RCU (Wen gang Wang) [orabug 8423936]

[2.6.9-89.0.3]
-agp: zero pages before sending to userspace (Jiri Olsa) [497023 497024] 
{CVE-2009-1192}
-agp: fix boot issue with agp zero pages patch (Jiri Olsa) [497023 
497024] {CVE-2009-1192}
-e1000: fix skb_over_panic (Neil Horman) [502982 502983] {CVE-2009-1385}
-kernel: proc: avoid information leaks to non privileged processes 
(Amerigo Wang) [499549 499548]
-netpoll: bust poll_lock when doing netdump (Neil Horman) [504565 494688]

[2.6.9-89.0.2]
-xen: local denial of service [500948 500949] {CVE-2009-1758}
-nfs: fix client handling of MAY_EXEC in nfs_permission [500299 500300] 
{CVE-2009-1630}

[2.6.9-89.0.1]
-Reapply: fix race condition in input.c (Vivek Goyal) [501804 501064]
-nfs: inode of the overwritten file will remain in the icache (Flavio 
Leitner) [501802 494015]
-fix timespec off by one errors (Jason Baron) [501800 496201]
-add some long missing capabilities to cap_fs_mask (Eric Paris) [499073 
499074] [497269 497270] {CVE-2009-1072}
-net: tcp: clear probes_out more aggressively in tcp_ack (Jiri Pirko) 
[501754 494428]