[El-errata] ELSA-2009-1522 Moderate: Enterprise Linux 4 kernel security and bug fix update

Fri Oct 23 06:35:16 PDT 2009

Enterprise Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2009-1522

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1522.html

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

i386:
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.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-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.ELhugemem-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.ELhugemem-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm

x86_64:
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm

Description of changes:

[2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.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 nlmclnt_mark_reclaim ( Trond Myklebust) [orabug 8568878]
- [x86_64] Allowed machine_reboot running on boot_cpu (Joe Jin) [orabug 
8425237]

[2.6.9-89.0.15]
-fix typo in "-net: netlink: fix numerous padding memleaks" (Jiri Pirko) 
[521602 521603] {CVE-2005-4881}

[2.6.9-89.0.14]
-ibmveth: fix rollover error in ibmveth_replenish_buffer_pool (Kevin 
Monroe) [527225 515258]

[2.6.9-89.0.13]
-net: netlink: fix numerous padding memleaks (Jiri Pirko) [521602 
521603] {CVE-2005-4881}
-net: tc: fix unitialized kernel memory leak (Jiri Pirko) [520993 
520865] {CVE-2009-3228}
-igb: allocate correct buffer for ethtool_get_strings and remove false 
tx stats (Stefan Assmann) [522738 517329]
-prevent an O_NODELAY writer from blocking when a tty write is blocked 
(Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [523930 504019]
-cciss: fix NMI watchdog lockup due to re-acquiring spinlock (Tomas 
Henzl) [525725 509816]

[2.6.9-89.0.12]
-fs: nlm_lookup_host should not return invalidated nlm_host (Sachin S. 
Prabhu) [519656 505591]
-add -rh1 to ata_piix's driver version (Prarit Bhargava) [519389 495930]
-memory barrier: adding smp_mb__after_lock (Jiri Olsa) [519386 494404]
-net: adding memory barrier to the poll and receive callbacks (Jiri 
Olsa) [519386 494404]
-net: bonding: fix arp_validate 3 slaves behaviour (Flavio Leitner) 
[519384 480237]