Fedora Linux 8510 Published by

A new kernel update is available for Fedora Core 2

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Fedora Security Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-262
2005-03-28
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : kernel
Version : 2.6.10
Release : 1.771_FC2
Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc.



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* Sun Mar 27 2005 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Catch up with all recent security issues.
- CAN-2005-0210 : dst leak
- CAN-2005-0384 : ppp dos
- CAN-2005-0531 : Sign handling issues.
- CAN-2005-0400 : EXT2 information leak.
- CAN-2005-0449 : Remote oops.
- CAN-2005-0736 : Epoll overflow
- CAN-2005-0749 : ELF loader may kfree wrong memory.
- CAN-2005-0750 : Missing range checking in bluetooth
- CAN-2005-0767 : drm race in radeon
- CAN-2005-0815 : Corrupt isofs images could cause oops.

* Tue Mar 22 2005 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
- Fix swapped parameters to memset in ieee802.11 code.

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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/

279048bd2e34f477912badf1bb73d798 SRPMS/kernel-2.6.10-1.771_FC2.src.rpm
65d8acccaa8686bc8a8be34268801b5a x86_64/kernel-2.6.10-1.771_FC2.x86_64.rpm
a5a4c03beb3cd37a71789b4c40e99797 x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.771_FC2.x86_64.rpm
28ca62a9652cca57aadc0841dd58c85c x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.10-1.771_FC2.x86_64.rpm
e8d9cfc6aa998268426023a8a7bd3012 x86_64/kernel-sourcecode-2.6.10-1.771_FC2.noarch.rpm
3a14cc12fa4e6fb796edc1f8b7fa36cb x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.10-1.771_FC2.noarch.rpm
2dd2777c4e63ee49a1fa5d0aac63198e i386/kernel-2.6.10-1.771_FC2.i586.rpm
4f85f53a459595cf69635ca98f538eea i386/kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.771_FC2.i586.rpm
f6c507301df73b72cb9636a3e7db2eb6 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.10-1.771_FC2.i586.rpm
c11edec2fb84f899cbc4ba21e0cf3a0a i386/kernel-2.6.10-1.771_FC2.i686.rpm
b2a94b6b94be8816b02901b4347b805c i386/kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.771_FC2.i686.rpm
3fe0f11bdf21a2d3aa9afa2956926542 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.10-1.771_FC2.i686.rpm
e8d9cfc6aa998268426023a8a7bd3012 i386/kernel-sourcecode-2.6.10-1.771_FC2.noarch.rpm
3a14cc12fa4e6fb796edc1f8b7fa36cb i386/kernel-doc-2.6.10-1.771_FC2.noarch.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.