[SECURITY] Fedora Core 3 Update: kernel-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3

Posted by Bob on: 10/20/2005 03:42 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

A new update is available for Fedora Core - [SECURITY] Fedora Core 3 Update: kernel-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3. Here the announcement:

Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-1007
2005-10-20
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : kernel
Version : 2.6.12
Release : 1.1380_FC3
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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Update Information:

This update fixes the outstanding kernel security issues for
FC3, and fixes a number of regressions in the previous
update kernel.

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* Wed Oct 19 2005 Dave Jones lt;davej@redhat.comgt; [2.6.12-1.1380_FC3]
- CAN-2005-2973 (ipv6 infinite loop)
- CAN-2005-3179 (world writable drm sysfs file)
- CAN-2005-3180 (orinoco driver information leakage)
- CAN-2005-3181 (names_cache memory leak)
- Stop IDE claiming SATA ports in combined mode.

* Thu Oct 6 2005 Dave Jones lt;davej@redhat.comgt;
- Fix information leak in orinoco driver.

* Sun Oct 2 2005 Dave Jones lt;davej@redhat.comgt;
- Readd /proc/acpi/sleep

* Fri Sep 30 2005 Dave Jones lt;davej@redhat.comgt;
- fix no blue/fuzzy video on ibmcam (#148832)

* Fri Sep 30 2005 Dave Jones lt;davej@redhat.comgt;
- cut down stack usage in md layer. (#167173)

* Mon Sep 26 2005 Dave Jones lt;davej@redhat.comgt; [2.6.12-1.1379_FC3]
- Fix asm-x86_64 dependancy on asm-i386. (#150266)

* Sat Sep 24 2005 Dave Jones lt;davej@redhat.comgt;
- Remove bogus BUG_ON() in fs/exec.c (#160121)
- Power up pwc cameras by default. (#140258)

* Fri Sep 23 2005 Dave Jones lt;davej@redhat.comgt;
- Fix problem with toshiba_acpi. (#167218)

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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/

b318d73186fd0fd67d766ed99a94cec4 SRPMS/kernel-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.src.rpm
ff038e4704db0ee2db693d050099be8f x86_64/kernel-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.x86_64.rpm
09286bbbde2549cd1900c457a2e3d660 x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.x86_64.rpm
523374734813254de7467001ee674466 x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.x86_64.rpm
445848618621530b6cc7baad2ef26d19 x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.noarch.rpm
d4a8de75b9266120516aa5b98c6e487d i386/kernel-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.i586.rpm
3d73f07924f5bbfde019a125973d6629 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.i586.rpm
3184729a9389d73853b45821a7f4e7c1 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.i586.rpm
033ec1afcf74a67ef3bd0406683fc94d i386/kernel-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.i686.rpm
ad156d8dd242346a518319402cde0025 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.i686.rpm
8e1448a177888193f6db238f842acb92 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.i686.rpm
445848618621530b6cc7baad2ef26d19 i386/kernel-doc-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.noarch.rpm

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