Fedora Core 4: 2006-131 Critical: Kernel DoS Issues 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.

This update rebases to the latest -stable release

(2.6.15.5), which fixes a number of security problems.

- sys_mbind failed to sanity check its arguments, leading to

a potential local DoS.

- A specially crafted ELF executable could cause Intel EM64T

boxes to crash. (CVE-2006-0741)

- Normal users could panic NFS clients with direct I/O

(CVE-2006-0555)

Further information on 2.6.15.5 changes can be found in the

upstream changelog at

Further Fedora specific changes are detailed below.

- 2.6.15.5

* Tue Feb 21 2006 Dave Jones

- Add boot delay debug patch.

* Mon Feb 20 2006 Dave Jones

- Make monitor mode work for ipw2200

- Add another mp3 player to the usb unusual device list. (#176584)

* Sun Feb 19 2006 Dave Jones

- Bump minimum requirements for module-init-tools & udev

- Make 16C950 UARTs work.

* Thu Feb 16 2006 Dave Jones

- Fix PMTU NAT bug.

* Thu Feb 16 2006 John W. Linville

- Set ipw2200 hwcrypto option to 0 to avoid firmware restarts.

* Fri Feb 10 2006 Dave Jones [2.6.15-1.1832_FC4]

- 2.6.15.4

* Thu Feb 9 2006 Dave Jones

- Disable SMP in x86-64 UP kernels. (Whoops).

* Thu Feb 9 2006 David Woodhouse

- Fix PPC64 FP exception setup

- Fix brain damage in usb_find_interface (#176333)

7682f506eeb41aee31371405d55e7fa93e01360f SRPMS/kernel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.src.rpm

f37c270a5d32bf752b4b9b50dec21766ac5f72a0 ppc/kernel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.ppc.rpm

624e1525a3feb8c35c154aa0d1dade7b2c5bf0d1 ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.ppc.rpm

53138aeb74ff50e5c13a96b5c87c37488cb4ddb5 ppc/kernel-smp-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.ppc.rpm

d0024ab26bd3d2b0476f5142be5866f0d653fb27 ppc/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.ppc.rpm

0c607cfa3944a0000ea89143f3dc5fc2f8203a26 ppc/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.ppc.rpm

64cd60e3c7595c2c23dc24ce7922218323678687 ppc/kernel-doc-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.noarch.rpm

3de514a4c888cbf92b6b6c2269e8b0cc69977577 x86_64/kernel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.x86_64.rpm

9d637ea0323f5a37172a0a06d04cee7064ed5e2a x86_64/kernel-devel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.x86_64.rpm

8b63fd524c20e9d10f5de872545cccb3a66f8323 x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.x86_64.rpm

1e6b05ecbc2f5f4e6d68fe8606bff50666028d11 x86_64/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.x86_64.rpm

fc4e5b2d7ea78ac7ef97cd2b78762e85c0c96e7f x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.x86_64.rpm

64cd60e3c7595c2c23dc24ce7922218323678687 x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.noarch.rpm

ad545cc747ef07f8b9ece878e057c24e997d0e47 i386/kernel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.i586.rpm

cd001d16945ccd001e9adece7f4a4b44a6099bf9 i386/kernel-devel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.i586.rpm

ed35c8709004507af2b9cc720afcb2b4a5f35e42 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.i586.rpm

98e78f254935b01d42f4b3bc5d165a00b85dfdd8 i386/kernel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.i686.rpm

f0a6bcda29f5a936fbd9f45f5dbc3fd8162f1260 i386/kernel-devel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.i686.rpm

1801e8f001ee4f06198094ded3ab5431e4284442 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.i686.rpm

0eaae08ab5d54182a5da346943e66ab0a9db94e7 i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.i686.rpm

73c80a317d968cd0909cd3d1dfea903afa2bb314 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.i686.rpm

64cd60e3c7595c2c23dc24ce7922218323678687 i386/kernel-doc-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.noarch.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update

package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing

Software with yum,' available at .

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