Fedora Core 2: 2004-08-03 Moderate: Kernel Security Fixes

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.

This update kernel for Fedora Core 2 contains the security fixes as found by Paul Starzetz from isec.pl. In addition this kernel contains a significant number of bugfixes that are inherited from the newer kernel.org kernel this release is based on.

* Wed Aug 04 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>

- fix ppos races

* Sat Jul 17 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>

- ppc32 embedded updates

* Fri Jul 16 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>

- make USB modules again and add Alan's real fix for the SMM-meets-USB bug - 2.6.8-rc1-bk4

* Thu Jul 15 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>

- 2.6.8-rc1-bk3

* Wed Jul 14 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>

- add "enforcemodulesig" boot option to make the kernel load signed modules only

* Tue Jul 13 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>

- updated voluntary preempt - 2.6.8-rc1

* Thu Jul 08 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>

- fix boot breakage that was hitting lots of people...