--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Security Update Notification FEDORA-2003-026 2003-12-02 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : kernel Version : 2.4.22 Release : 1.2129.nptl Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system) Description : The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of your Red Hat Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The kernel shipped with Fedora Core 1 was vulnerable to a bug in the error return on a concurrent fork() with threaded exit() which could be exploited by a user level program to crash the kernel. In addition to this bug fix, the changelog below details various other non security fixes that have been added. * Mon Dec 01 2003 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - sys_tgkill wasn't enabled on IA32. * Sun Nov 30 2003 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Process scheduler fix. When doing sync wakeups we must not skip the notification of other cpus if the task is not on this runqueue. * Wed Nov 26 2003 Justin M. Forbes <64bit_fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> - Merge required ia32 syscalls for AMD64 - [f]truncate64 for 32bit code fix * Mon Nov 24 2003 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Fix power-off on shutdown with ACPI. - Add missing part of recent cmpci fix - Drop CONFIG_NR_CPUS patch which was problematic. - Fold futex-fix into main futex patch. - Fix TG3 tqueue initialisation. - Various NPTL fixes. * Fri Nov 14 2003 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Drop netfilter change which proved to be bad upstream. * Thu Nov 13 2003 Justin M. Forbes <64bit_fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> - Fix NForce3 DMA and ATA133 on AMD64 * Wed Nov 12 2003 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Fix syscall definitions on AMD64 * Tue Nov 11 2003 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Fix Intel 440GX Interrupt routing. - Fix waitqueue leak in cmpci driver. * Mon Nov 10 2003 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Kill noisy warnings in the DRM modules. - Merge munged upstream x86-64.org patch for various AMD64 fixes. * Mon Nov 03 2003 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Further cleanups related to AMD64 build. * Fri Oct 31 2003 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Make AMD64 build. --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/ b2ca2e65c14ba3a32bbae6b11e368033 SRPMS/kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.src.rpm 30c673e9bd3470d2323fad69ba064a59 i386/kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i386.rpm ea3ca9fce1003aa1c03396501fe8e8e4 i386/kernel-doc-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i386.rpm 90bbab66acb77dbfe6e2ae91fca5f4c8 i386/kernel-BOOT-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i386.rpm a9ebdfdfd8d19a72decf1b8d5549996b i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i386.rpm d088887cfc2894539051ec7708ef7c9e i386/kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i586.rpm 43edf191d8dd0713964ee922e85179a4 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i586.rpm ee7850054d3f2b3f72a7d262a398ad87 i386/kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i686.rpm a023b71cda6252a168c69a05e894e988 i386/kernel-smp-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i686.rpm 7c23798f7d4d3852cf395a23169e99df i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i686.rpm a81da54e2c360f336e35135b5b3fedb9 i386/kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.athlon.rpm 230fedc801524652681a23cfd6aad8a4 i386/kernel-smp-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.athlon.rpm 7f461087fa103bef89c14057413e0c1d i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.athlon.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
