Fedora Core 2: FEDORA-2004-137 Moderate: Kernel Buffer Overflow Fix

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.

An updated kernel is available that brings the kernel to the 2.6.7-rc3 base level. This new kernel provides a significant number of bug fixes and improvements for USB, the keyboard/mouse subsystem and the VM. This kernel also fixes the high profile bugs about not working on VIA C3 processors(#120685) and Asus P4P800 motherboards (#121819). In this new kernel firewire no longer oopses during boot and has been re-enabled, however we consider firewire support still somewhat experimental and recommend extensive testing before using firewire in a production environment.

This kernel also contains the enhancements series from Al Viro that enables the Sparse source code checking tool to check for a certain class kernel bugs. This class of bugs can lead to privilege escalation vulnerabilities, and fixes for all such bugs that were found with Sparse and these patches are included in this erratum.

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In addition to these bugfixes, the x86 kernel-smp subpackage now also cont...