Enterprise Linux 4 ELSA-2008-0972 Critical Kernel Update Advisory
oracle
November 20, 2008
The following updated rpms for Enterprise Linux 4 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:
Summary
[2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL] - fix entropy flag in bnx2 driver to generate entropy pool (John Sobecki) [orabug 5931647] - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto() to fail with EFAULT (Olaf Kirch) [orabug 6845794] - fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc (Zach Brown) [orabug 5486128] - fix per_cpu() api bug_on with rds (Zach Brown) [orabug 5760648] - backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread (Guru Anbalagane) [orabug 6125546] - netrx/netpoll race avoidance (Tina Yang) [orabug 6143381] - fix guest spinning in xen (Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 7004010] - fix serial port lock recursion (Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 6761872] - [XEN] Fix elf_core_dump (Tina Yang) [orabug 6995928] - fix in nfs_attribute_timeout() (Trond Myklebust) [orabug 7378108] - [vm] Fix hang in shrink_zone for direct reclaim threads under heavy swapping load condition (John Sobecki,Chris Mason) [orabug 6086839] - use lfence instead of cpuid instruction to implement memory barriers (Herbert ...
Read the Full Advisory
SRPMs
https://oss.oracle.com:443/el4/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.src.rpm The following packages were rebuilt to be in sync with the updated kernel version (no changes other than updating the version number): SRPMS: https://oss.oracle.com:443/el4/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpm https://oss.oracle.com:443/el4/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm
x86_64
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-xenU-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm ia64: kernel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm x86_64: oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL...
Read the Full Advisoryaarch64
PREVIOUS
NEXT
Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical
Get the latest News and Insights
Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.
Related News
Powered By
Linux Security - Your source for Top Linux News, Advisories, HOWTOs and Feature Releases
QUICK LINKS
subscribe to newsletters!
Like staying secure? So do we.
Sign up for updates, tips, and alerts!