---------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-277
2007-03-02
---------------------------------------------------------------------Product     : Fedora Core 5
Name        : kernel
Version     : 2.6.19
Release     : 1.2288.2.1.fc5
Summary     : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
Description :
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.

---------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information:

Updated to kernel 2.6.19.5-rc1 plus additional fixes:


2.6.19.5-rc1:
4 V4L fixes
3 usbaudio fixes
3 wireless driver fixes
2 IDE driver cable detection fixes
NFS bugfix
various other fixes

CVE-2007-0772:
Summary: The Linux kernel before 2.6.20.1 allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (oops) via a crafted
NFSACL 2 ACCESS request that triggers a free of an incorrect
pointer.

CVE-2006-5753:
Summary: Unspecified vulnerability in the listxattr system
call in Linux kernel, when a "bad inode" is present, allows
local users to cause a denial of service (data corruption)
and possibly gain privileges via unknown vectors.

---------------------------------------------------------------------* Thu Feb 22 2007 Chuck Ebbert 
- 2.6.19.4 (CVE-2007-0772)
- 2.6.19.5-rc1
- bad_inode_ops patch (CVE-2006-5753)
- disable MSI on forcedeth cards (FC6 bz #222556)
- Intel HDA si3054 codec (FC6 bz #228879)
- "no irq for vector" fix (FC6 bz #225399)
- usbnet oops fix (FC6 bz #228231)
- swiotlb synchronization fix
- scsi cdrom ioctls were broken
- NAPI netpoll fixes from FC6 2911 kernel
* Sat Feb 10 2007 Chuck Ebbert 
- add missing "provides" for debug-devel packages
- clean up some other "provides" things
- add fixes for RHBZ#211672 (CIFS) and RHBZ#227802 (8139too)
* Wed Feb  7 2007 Chuck Ebbert 
- add missing debug-devel and smp-debug-devel sections
* Wed Feb  7 2007 Chuck Ebbert 
- fix up x86_64 Xen build
* Tue Feb  6 2007 Chuck Ebbert 
- disable Tux
- add another GFS2 update
- add crypto key collision patch (CVE-2007-0006)
* Mon Feb  5 2007 Dave Jones 
- Reenable Tux.
* Mon Feb  5 2007 Chuck Ebbert 
- 2.6.19.3
- updated mirrors: refer to ftp2.kernel.org until
  kernel.org problems are fixed
* Sun Feb  4 2007 Dave Jones 
- 2.6.19.3rc1
* Sat Feb  3 2007 Dave Jones 
- Disable kdump options in non-kdump kernels.
* Thu Feb  1 2007 Chuck Ebbert 
- Added i586 optimized AES and Blowfish modules to the i686 config
- Fixed .cvsignore
* Wed Jan 31 2007 Markus Armbruster 
- The previous cset folded the Xen paravirt framebuffer patch into
  linux-2.6-xen.patch, and commented out the obsoleted patch files.
  Remove them.
* Wed Jan 31 2007 Chuck Ebbert 
- Update to 2.6.19.2
* Tue Jan 30 2007 Markus Armbruster 
- Update Xen paravirt framebuffer patch to upstream xen-unstable
  changeset 13066, less changeset 12680, because that breaks with
  console=tty console=xvc.  Also change default domU console back to
  /dev/xcv0.  This changes the protocol to the one accepted upstream.
- Add compatibility with guests running our initial protocol.
- Update Xen console major/minor to lanana.org-assigned numbers.
* Wed Dec 20 2006 Dave Jones 
- Update to 2.6.18.6 final (no changes since rc2)
- Reenable squashfs (#220293)
* Fri Dec 15 2006 Dave Jones 
- 2.6.18.6rc2
* Wed Dec 13 2006 Dave Jones 
- squashfs robustness fixes from Phillip Lougher.
- lower max CPU count for x86-64 to 64 CPUs.
* Thu Dec  7 2006 Juan Quintela 
- update xen to 2.6.18.5.
- Fix bug 211986 on xen eventchn (Glaubert).
* Tue Dec  5 2006 Dave Jones 
- 2.6.18.5
- Disable auto-apic patch, it needs more thought.
- Enable sonypi driver for 586 kernels. (#218434)
* Tue Nov 21 2006 Juan Quintela 
- Update xen to 2.6.18.3.
  * linux-2.6.18-xen changeset:   36186:053cdad40903
  * xen-3.0.3-testing changeset:   11774:52ae8dd4bc75
  * linux-2.6-xen-3.0.3 changeset:   22949:4281f5246814
* Mon Nov 20 2006 Dave Jones 
- 2.6.18.3
- Fix CIFS mount failure when domain not specified (#211753)
- Avoid null pointer dereference in SATA Promise. (#199142)
* Fri Nov 17 2006 Dave Jones 
- Fix up fallout from disabling utrace.
* Fri Nov 17 2006 Juan Quintela 
- merge xen missing bits from FC6 kernel.
* Thu Nov 16 2006 Dave Jones 
- Fix up error handling in HFS. (MOKB-14-11-2006)
* Thu Nov 16 2006 Juan Quintela 
- Update xen HV to 3.0.3_0 (cset 11774).
- Update xen kernel patch to 3.0.3_0:
  * linux-2.6.18-xen changeset:   36182:c6ef4b521aef
  * xen-3.0.3-testing changeset:   11774:52ae8dd4bc75
  * linux-2.6-xen-3.0.3 changeset:   22949:4281f5246814
* Thu Nov 16 2006 Dave Jones 
- Fix squashfs corruption bug. (#211237)
- Drop experimental utrace from FC5.
* Fri Nov 10 2006 Juan Quintela 
- disable XEN_FRAMEBUFFER & XEN_KEYBOARD.
* Fri Nov 10 2006 Dave Jones 
- Xen grant table operations security fix.
- Disable W1 (#195825)
* Thu Nov  9 2006 Dave Jones 
- Change HZ to 1000 for increased accuracy.
  (Except in Xen, where it stays at 250 for now).
- TTY locking fixes.
- splice : Must fully check for FIFO
- Fix potential NULL dereference in sys_move_pages
- ISO9660 __find_get_block_slow() denial of service CVE-2006-5757
- Fix up oops in cramfs when encountering corrupt images.
- E1000 suspend/resume fixes.
- Set CIFS preferred IO size. (#214607)
* Mon Nov  6 2006 Roland McGrath 
- New utrace patch: fix locking snafu crash on second engine attach.
* Sun Nov  5 2006 Dave Jones 
- Suspend/Resume fixes for forcedeth. (#187653)
* Sat Nov  4 2006 Dave Jones 
- 2.6.18.2
* Thu Nov  2 2006 Dave Jones 
- Nuke broken lazy execshield xen patch.
- Use heuristics to determine whether to enable lapic on i386.
* Wed Nov  1 2006 Dave Jones 
- 2.6.18.2-rc1
* Tue Oct 31 2006 Dave Jones 
- Fix UFS mounts on x86-64 (#209921)
- Fix problem where USB storage isn't seen on reboot. (#212191)
* Sun Oct 29 2006 Dave Jones 
- More ext3 robustness fixes.
- Include more verbose BUG() data
- x86_64: Fix up C3 timer latency.
* Sat Oct 21 2006 Dave Jones 
- Reenable NCPFS (#211325, #203663)
- Netpoll fixes. (#199295)
* Fri Oct 20 2006 Dave Jones 
- Fix autofs creating bad dentries in NFS mount. (#211206, #211207)
- Fix softlockup with ips driver. (#196437)
- Further exec-shield improvements.
- Fix lockup with sky2 driver. (#202203)
* Thu Oct 19 2006 Dave Jones 
- Export copy_4K_page for ppc64 (#211410)
- Attempt to fix CIFS bug (#211070)
* Wed Oct 18 2006 Dave Jones 
- Fix up aic7xxx SBLKCTL register handling (#211251)
- Disable SECMARK by default. (#211115)
- Disable some extra debugging stuff that crept in.
- Remove broken VIA quirk that prevented booting on some EPIAs (#211298)
* Tue Oct 17 2006 Dave Jones 
- Silence noisy boot-time messages. (#180606)
- Workaround gcc bug with weak symbols (#191458)
- Don't let speedstep-smi register on mobile Pentium4 (#204477)
* Sat Oct 14 2006 Dave Jones 
- Fix jbd crash with 1KB block size filesystems.
* Sat Oct 14 2006 Dave Jones  [2.6.18-1.2200.fc5]
- 2.6.18.1
* Tue Oct 10 2006 Dave Jones 
- DWARF2 unwinder fixes.
- Various lockdep fixes.
- Sync various other patches from the FC6 kernel.
* Sun Oct  1 2006 Dave Jones 
- Drop the STICKY tag from acpi-cpufreq, it breaks suspend/resume.
* Fri Sep 29 2006 Dave Jones 
- Execshield improvements. (Bart Oldeman)
- Disable PM_DEBUG
* Thu Sep 28 2006 Roland McGrath 
- utrace typo fix for x86-64 watchpoints (#207467)
* Thu Sep 28 2006 Dave Jones 
- Fix ISAPNP messages on ppc32. (#207641)
* Thu Sep 28 2006 Dave Jones 
- Another day, another round of lockdep fixes.
- Align kernel data segment to page boundary. (#206863)
* Thu Sep 28 2006 Steven Whitehouse 
- New GFS2 patch
* Thu Sep 28 2006 Dave Jones 
- Fix "kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:2789!" bug
* Wed Sep 27 2006 Dave Jones 
- yet more lockdep fixes.
- Fix a problem with XFS & the inode diet patches.
- Fix rpc_pipefs umount oops
- Enable alternative TCP congestion algorithms.
* Tue Sep 26 2006 Dave Jones 
- Enable serverworks IDE driver for x86-64.
- More lockdep fixes.
* Mon Sep 25 2006 Jarod Wilson 
- Make kernel packages own initrd files
* Mon Sep 25 2006 John W. Linville 
- Add periodic work fix for bcm43xx driver
* Sat Sep 23 2006 Dave Jones 
- Disable dgrs driver.
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Dave Jones 
- reiserfs: make sure all dentry refs are released before
  calling kill_block_super
- Fix up some compile warnings
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Juan Quintela 
- re-enable xen.
- update xen:
  * linux-2.6 changeset:   34294:dc1d277d06e0
  * linux-2.6-xen-fedora changeset:   36184:47c098fdce14
  * xen-unstable changeset:   11540:9837ff37e354
- update xen HV to changeset:   11540:9837ff37e354
- xen HV printf rate limit (rostedt).
* Wed Sep 20 2006 Dave Jones 
- 2.6.18
- i965 AGP suspend support.
- AGP x8 fixes.
* Tue Sep 19 2006 Juan Quintela 
- updated xen configs to sync with rawhide ones (don't be afraid, xen0/xenU
  still around).
- xen update.
 * linux-2.6 changeset: 34228:ea3369ba1e2c
 * linux-2.6-xen-fedora changeset: 36109:eefcfd07d102
 * linux-2.6-xen changeset: 22905:d8ae02f7df05
 * xen-unstable changeset: 11460:1ece34466781ec55f41fd29d53f6dafd208ba2fa
* Mon Sep 18 2006 Dave Jones 
- Bring back 586smp
- Fix RTC lockdep bug. (Peter Zijlstra)
* Mon Sep 18 2006 Juan Quintela 
- xen HV update (cset 11470:2b8dc69744e3).
* Sun Sep 17 2006 Juan Quintela 
- xen update:
  * linux-2.6 changeset: 34228:ea3369ba1e2c
  * linux-2.6-xen-fedora changeset: 36107:47256dbb1583
  * linux-2.6-xen changeset: 22905:d8ae02f7df05
  * xen-unstable changeset: 11460:1ece34466781ec55f41fd29d53f6dafd208ba2fa
* Sun Sep 17 2006 Dave Jones 
- Rebase to 2.6.18rc7-git2
* Mon Sep 11 2006 Dave Jones  [2.6.17-1.2187_FC5]
- Add quirk for Samsung mp3 player. (#198128)
* Sun Sep 10 2006 Dave Jones 
- Fix up mismerge in USB storage driver.
* Sat Sep  9 2006 Dave Jones 
- 2.6.17.13
* Fri Sep  8 2006 Dave Jones 
- 2.6.17.12
* Thu Aug 24 2006 Jarod Wilson 
- update to 2.6.17.11
* Tue Aug 22 2006 Bill Nottingham 
- update to 2.6.17.10«
* Tue Aug 15 2006 Juan Quintela 
- linux-2.6-xen update
  * linux-2.6.17-xen cset changeset: 29033:e6adb54afb96
  * linux-2.6-xen cset 22813:80c2ccf5c330
- s/xen_version/xen_hv_cset/ as Fedora.
- update xen hv to cset 11061.
* Mon Aug  7 2006 Mike Christie 
- Drop iscsi update patch.
* Mon Aug  7 2006 Dave Jones 
- 2.6.17.8
* Fri Aug  4 2006 Dave Jones 
- Fix split lock patch for 64bit.
* Fri Aug  4 2006 Dave Jones  [2.6.17-1.2171_FC5]
- 2.6.17.8rc1
* Wed Aug  2 2006 Dave Jones 
- Readd patch to allow 460800 baud on 16C950 UARTs
* Sat Jul 29 2006 Dave Jones 
- Silence noisy SCSI ioctl. (#200638)
* Fri Jul 28 2006 Dave Jones 
- 2.6.17.7
* Thu Jul 27 2006 Rik van Riel 
- reduce hypervisor stack use with -O2, this really fixes bug (#198932)
* Tue Jul 25 2006 Rik van Riel 
- disable debug=y hypervisor build option because of stack overflow (#198932)
* Tue Jul 25 2006 Dave Jones 
- Enable serio_raw (#199387)
* Sun Jul 16 2006 Dave Jones 
- Support up to 4GB in the 586 kernel again.
* Sun Jul 16 2006 Dave Jones 
- 2.6.17.6
* Fri Jul 14 2006 Dave Jones 
- Reenable SMC NIC driver.
* Tue Jul 11 2006 Dave Jones 
- 2.6.17.4
- Disable split pagetable lock
* Sat Jul  8 2006 Juan Quintela 
- enable CONFIG_CRASH on xen kernels.
- enable CONFIG_PCIDEV_BACKEND on xen kernels.
- make BLKDEV_FRONTEND a module on xen kernels.
- rebase with linux-2.6-xen-fedora 28918.
- Update to xen-unstable HV cset 10508.
- xen: credit scheduler is the default now.
* Wed Jul  5 2006 Dave Jones 
- Get rid of stack backtrace on panic, which in most
  cases actually caused a loss of info instead of a gain.
* Tue Jul  4 2006 Juan Quintela 
- new merge with xen upstream.
- xen kernel don't require xen userland.
- new xen kernel (same as rawhide one) with PAE support.
- removed xen0-PAE & xenU-PAE (see xen kernel).
* Fri Jun 30 2006 Dave Jones 
- 2.6.17.3
- 2.6.17.2
- Fix the ALSA list_add bug.
* Mon Jun 26 2006 Dave Jones 
- Enable fake PCI hotplug driver. (#190437)
- Enable gameport/joystick on i586 builds. (#196581)
* Sat Jun 24 2006 Dave Jones 
- Enable profiling for 586 kernels.
* Fri Jun 23 2006 Dave Jones 
- Make 'quiet' work again.
* Tue Jun 20 2006 Dave Jones  [2.6.17-1.2139_FC5]
- Rebuild with slab debug off.
* Tue Jun 20 2006 Dave Jones  [2.6.17-1.2138_FC5]
- 2.6.17.1
* Sun Jun 18 2006 Dave Jones 
- 2.6.17
- Only print info about SMP alternatives on SMP kernels.
* Tue Jun  6 2006 Dave Jones  [2.6.16-1.2133_FC5]
- Add a PPC64 kdump kernel.
* Mon Jun  5 2006 Dave Jones  [2.6.16-1.2132_FC5]
- 2.6.16.20
* Thu Jun  1 2006 Dave Jones 
- Reenable Xen builds.
* Tue May 30 2006 Dave Jones 
- 2.6.16.19
* Sun May 28 2006 Dave Jones 
- Fix unresolved symbol. (#193333)
* Sat May 27 2006 Dave Jones 
- Improve list corruption debugging patch.
* Fri May 26 2006 Dave Jones 
- Remove xenU initrd's when kernel is removed.
* Fri May 26 2006 Juan Quintela 
- Remove ARCH=xen reminiscences on spec file

---------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be downloaded from:
    
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82623291d8b24f73db7c1e74c8199cbcb45267c7  noarch/kernel-2.6.19-1.2288.2.1.fc5.src.rpm
bdc515a55fc99a40b3770535f76a90be89fb5692  ppc/kernel-2.6.19-1.2288.2.1.fc5.ppc.rpm
a7932bd6a0346b28b9c723c5eb46b60a48f1cdf9  ppc/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.19-1.2288.2.1.fc5.ppc.rpm
a82e1ad7bdff7199624da1d414d4cce8d2762a7f  ppc/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.19-1.2288.2.1.fc5.ppc.rpm
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374d4826a762a8cf808d7513a5b667a72fab8598  x86_64/kernel-devel-2.6.19-1.2288.2.1.fc5.x86_64.rpm
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a4a094bc5a42507e01e5b0ab3d4e2dd2ceec46f7  i386/kernel-debug-devel-2.6.19-1.2288.2.1.fc5.i686.rpm
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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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