[El-errata] ELSA-2010-0474 Important: Enterprise Linux 4 kernel security and bug fix update

Thu Jun 17 07:51:03 PDT 2010

Enterprise Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2010-0474

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0474.html

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

i386:
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.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-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.ELhugemem-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.ELhugemem-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm

x86_64:
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm

Description of changes:

[2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL]
- [XEN] fix cpu hotplug crash (Joe Jin) [orabug 7521308]
- [XEN] Bring up vcpus before khelper init (Joe Jin) [orabug 7521308]
- [XEN] flush the tlb cache immediately (Dave McCracken, Scott Shi) 
[orabug 9138767]
- 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]
- fix oops in nlmclnt_mark_reclaim (Trond Myklebust) [orabug 8568878]
- [x86_64] Allowed machine_reboot running on boot_cpu (Joe Jin) [orabug 
8425237]
- FP register state is corrupted during the handling a SIGSEGV (Chuck 
Anderson)
  [orabug 7708133]
- [x86_64]: fix x86_64 largesmp kernel reboot hang (Joe Jin) [orabug 
bug9126592]
- [nfs]: fix file attribute caching (Chuck Lever, Herbert van den Bergh)
  [orabug 8449921]
- [mm] revert patch #2042 (John Sobecki) [orabug 8895251]
- [x86_64] Add compat32 support for readahead and fadvise64 (John Haxby)
  [orabug 9458826]
- [XEN] free pte on hugetlb_prefault to avoid the clear_page race
  (Dave McCracken, Joe Jin) [orabug 9493665]
- [XEN] Flush tlb cache immediately to avoid clear_page race (Dave 
McCracken,
  Joe Jin) [orabug 9488844]

[2.6.9-89.0.26]
-pci: fix reference to dev->bus->pad2 in pcix_set_mmrbc() (Dean Nelson) 
[596374 499355]
-pci: cleanup error return for pcix get and set mmrbc functions (Dean 
Nelson) [596374 499355]
-pci: fix access of pci_x_cmd by pcix get and set mmrbc functions (Dean 
Nelson) [596374 499355]
-pci: fix return value from pcix_get_max_mmrbc (Dean Nelson) [596374 499355]
-sctp: fix skb_over_panic from processing too many unknown params (Neil 
Horman) [584655 584656] {CVE2010-1173}
-kernel: keyrings: find_keyring_by_name() can gain the freed keyring 
(Vitaly Mayatskikh) [585097 585098] {CVE-2010-1437}
-virtio: net refill on out of memory (Herbert Xu) [597310 589897]
-net: pkt_sched: fix sfq qdisc crashes with limit of 2 packets (Jiri 
Pirko) [597312 587644]
-nfs: make sure client returns updated d_type info in getdents responses 
(Jeff Layton) [596372 577378]
-vfs: force reval of target when following last_bind symlinks (Jeff 
Layton) [533118 533119] {CVE-2009-3726}
-nfsv4: fix a problem whereby a buggy server can oops the kernel (Jeff 
Layton) [533118 533119] {CVE-2009-3726}
-nfsd4: move special stateid processing to nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op() 
(Jeff Layton) [597314 517162]
-nfsd4: move nfserr_openmode checking from nfsd_read/write into 
nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op() (Jeff Layton) [597314 517162]
-time drift due to incorrect accounting of lost ticks if tick_divider > 
1 (Ulrich Obergfell) [590551 579716]
-jbd: properly discard freed buffers after commit (Josef Bacik) [589155 
571546]