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Fedora: 2005-262 Moderate: Kernel DoS and Memory Leak Fix

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2005
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Patch for Fedora Core 2 kernel rectifies various security vulnerabilities, improving overall system performance and dependability.
Updated Package.

Summary

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.

- 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

- Fix swapped parameters to memset in ieee802.11 code.

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.

fedora-announce-list@redhat.com

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Name: kernel
Version: 2.6.10
Release: 1.771_FC2
Summary: The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)

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