[El-errata] ELSA-2009-0459 Important: Enterprise Linux 4 kernel security and bug fix update

Sat May 2 00:46:57 PDT 2009

Enterprise Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2009-0459

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0459.html

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

i386:
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.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-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.ELhugemem-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.ELhugemem-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm

x86_64:
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm

Description of changes:

[2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL]
- [xen] fix for hung JVM thread after #GPF [orabug 7916406] (Chuck Anderson)
- fix entropy flag in bnx2 driver to generate entropy pool (John Sobecki)
  [orabug 5931647]
- 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]
- fix per_cpu() api bug_on with rds (Zach Brown) [orabug 5760648]
- backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread (Guru Anbalagane)
  [orabug 6125546]
- netrx/netpoll race avoidance (Tina Yang) [orabug 6143381]
- fix guest spinning in xen (Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 7004010]
- fix serial port lock recursion (Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 6761872]
- [XEN] Fix elf_core_dump (Tina Yang) [orabug 6995928]
- fix in nfs_attribute_timeout() (Trond Myklebust) [orabug 7378108]
- 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]
- port Red Hat bug 472572: HVM crash in net/core/dev.c during boot 
[orabug 7653948]
  The following Red Hat patches were ported from the source RPM at:

http://people.redhat.com/vgoyal/rhel4/SRPMS.kernel/kernel-2.6.9-78.22.EL.src.rpm
    linux-2.6.9-xen-fix-netfront-mem-leak.patch
    linux-2.6.9-xen-xen-vnif-stops-working-on-reception-of-duplicat.patch
- fix kernel null dereference in ap_suspend() during migration [orabug 
7635625]
  Ported from the el5u2 xenpv-0.1-9.0.1.el5 patch
  ovs-bugz7262-fix-migration-hang-due-to-write-lock-starvation.patch.
  In el5u2, the fix is to the xenpv driver.  For el4u7, the xenpv driver
  was moved into the kernel.
- port el4u6 xenpv patch (orabug 7442030) for live migration hang
  [orabug 7458244]
- [xen]: port el5u2 patch that allows 64-bit PVHVM guest to boot with 32-bit
  dom0 [orabug 7452107]
- [mm] update shrink_zone patch to allow 100% swap utilization (John 
Sobecki,
  Chris Mason, Chuck Anderson, Dave McCracken) [orabug 7566319,6086839]
- [nfs] update fix for attribute caching when using actimeo=0 (Chuck Lever,
  John Sobecki) [ORABUG 7131141,7156607,7388056] [RHBZ 446083,476726]
- [kernel] backport report_lost_ticks patch from EL5.2 (John Sobecki)
  [orabug 6110605]
- 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]

[2.6.9-78.0.22]
-nmi watchdog: fix LAPIC mode detection on cpus with supported 
performance counters (John Villalovos) [497330 491338]

[2.6.9-78.0.21]
-igb: prevent deadlock while executing netdump (Andy Gospodarek) [480579 
435886]

[2.6.9-78.0.20]
-mce: do not clear status registers in fatal conditions (Aristeu 
Rozanski) [494915 489695]

[2.6.9-78.0.19]
-xen: guest will crash if rtl8139 nic is only one specified (Don Dutile) 
[477146 472572]
-fix CLONE_PARENT and parent_exec_id interaction (Don Howard) [479961 
479962] {CVE-2009-0028}
-x86_64: syscall_audit: fix 32/64 syscall hole (Jerome Marchand) [487999 
488000] {CVE-2009-0834}
-x86_64: backport is_compat_task (Jerome Marchand) [487999 488000] 
{CVE-2009-0834}
-megaraid: fix a bug in reset handler (Tomas Henzl) [493420 481662]
-ext3: ext3_symlink should use gfp_nofs allocations inside (Flavio 
Leitner) [493422 489768]

[2.6.9-78.0.18]
-igb: prevent deadlock while executing netdump (Andy Gospodarek) [480579 
435886]
-nfs: fix pages of a memory mapped nfs file get corrupted (Peter 
Staubach) [490119 432974]
-aio: fix race in aio_complete that leads to a process hang (Jeff Moyer) 
[489935 456686]
-mptfusion: remove check for type disk (Tomas Henzl) [487399 465514]
-kernel: fix kernel memory disclosure in getsockopt() with option 
SO_BSDCOMPAT (Don Howard) [486515 486516] {CVE-2009-0676}
-ia64: fix deadlock in ia64 sys_ptrace (Jerome Marchand) [484904 442816]
-nfs: remove bogus lock if signalled case (Bryn M. Reeves) [456284 
456285] {CVE-2008-4307}
-nmi watchdog: generate load on all cpus while testing if the watchdog 
works (Aristeu Rozanski) [479184 488018]
-nmi watchdog: move check_nmi_watchdog to later in boot time (Aristeu 
Rozanski) [479184 458859]