Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4: RHSA-2006:0575-01 Critical Kernel Issue

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5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

141342 - install hangs on Dell PowerVault 745 with SATA drives (sata_vsc module) 149933 - fix missing wakeup in ipc/sem 151981 - udevd fails to create /dev files after misc_register 154984 - Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value audio does not work 155926 - [RHEL4-U2][Diskdump] OS_INIT dump function is broken 156145 - kernel may oops if more than 4k worth of string data returned in /proc/devices 156663 - Can't install from SATA CD/DVD drive 157404 - Loss of SATA ICH device hangs RAID1 157902 - [PATCH] ata_piix fails on some ICH7 hardware 158989 - snd-nm256 module hangs Dell Latitude CSx 165113 - kernel build broken when 4KSTACKS disabled 165245 - EHCI Host driver violates USB2.0 Specification leading to device failures 166541 - mdadm --grow infinite resync 168285 - No (useful) logging of parameters to execve 169260 - CVE-2005-3055 async usb devio oops 169456 - COMM_LOST problem with SCTP stream socket 169600 - SMP kernel crash when use as LVS router 170143 - rm command hangs when removing a symlink on ext2 loop filesystem 170434 - Deadlock in fc_target_unblock while shutting down the system 171304 - sata_promise: missing PCI ID for SATA300 TX4 171645 - Oops kernel NULL pointer 171740 - ipw2100 modules crashes and restarts whenever in use 172199 - Spurious keyboard repeats and clock is fast 172696 - kernel panic after a few hours/days of operation with pulse 173193 - vmalloc limited to 64Mb 173489 - kernel panics when rebooting 173843 - Kernel panic with this comment: <4>VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day... 173895 - Kernel panic on install on 64BG EM64T 174019 - TG3 driver crashes with BCM4704C chipset with heavy traffic 174155 - Documentation mismatch 174470 - RFE: tg3 support for Broadcom 5751 PCIe 174639 - System hangs with kernel panic when using current 3ware drivers 174671 - [PATCH] bonding: don't drop non-VLAN traffic 175616 - [RHEL 4 U2] kernel panic on EM64T with long cmdline args 175763 - misleading overcommit_memory reference in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt 175778 - Accessing automounted directories can cause a process to hang forever 175854 - [RHEL4-U3] Checking dump partition fails when a swap partition whose size is less than memory size is configured for diskdump. 176107 - sata-nv crashes on multiple SATA disks 176173 - The hash.h hash_long function, when used on a 64 bit machine, ignores many of the middle-order bits. 176361 - io_setup() fails for 32bit tasks in x86-64 176601 - Oprofile unsupported recent Pentium4 176612 - xw6400 System panic while installing RHEL4-U3 177439 - SELinux MLS compatibility 177509 - No i915 DRM module 178084 - Last AIO read of a file opened with O_DIRECT returns wrong length 178720 - O_DIRECT bug when reading last block of sparse file 178845 - RHEL4u4 FEAT: Provide support for Opteron Rev G and Power Now! clean-up 179206 - Please backport the sata_mv Marvell MV88SX5081 driver? 179334 - kernel boot can Oops in work queue code when console blanks 179752 - Request to update lpfc driver in RHEL 4 U4 180028 - deadlocks on ext2,sync mounted fs 180138 - kmir_mon worker thread doesn't exit 180195 - aic7xxx and aic79xx Drivers Don't Support 16-byte CDBs 180568 - typo in spinlock.h? line 407 180621 - ipv6 ready logo-P1 ND Test24 fails- RA Lifetime=5 not understood 180958 - [RHEL4] MCE arg parsing broken on x86-64 181457 - Console redirection on DRAC 3 results in repeated key strokes (P1) 181475 - lpfc driver: add managment ioctl module to kernel tree 181780 - Gettimeofday() timer related slowdown and scaling issue 181793 - add MCP51/ NVidia 430 IDE support 181869 - Error given when duplicate non-updateable key (eg: keyring) added 181870 - Key quota handling incorrect in allocation 181879 - CVE-2006-0457 Key syscalls use get length of strings before copying, and assume terminating NUL copied from userspace 181881 - CVE-2006-0456 s390/s390x strnlen_user() is broken 182137 - NFS lockd recovery is broken in U3 due to missing code. 182684 - [EMC/Oracle RHEL 4.4] ISCSI MODULE SHOWS MULTIPLE DEVICES FOR A SINGLE LUN IN RHEL 4.0 U2 182726 - Possible hang when ptracing and using hugepages 183392 - [RHEL4] [RFE] Add diskdump capability to IDE 183416 - DoS attack possible via nfsservctl 183463 - CVE-2006-0742 Bug in IA64 unaligned access handler causes kernel panic 183661 - ramfs: update dir mtime and ctime 183664 - dm: make sure don't give out the same minor number twice 184208 - Large LUNS can't be seen with Hitachi Open- SAN 184254 - PCI interrupts on ioapic pins 0-15 always get "legacy" IRQs. 184535 - [BETA RHEL4 U3] brokenness in cfq_dispatch_requests 184583 - Kernel should export number and state of local APICs 185043 - CVE-2005-3623 ACL setting on read-only fs 185289 - CVE-2006-1052 SELinux flaw 185431 - kernel dm: bad argument count check in dm-log.c 185444 - kernel dm: missing bdput 185445 - kernel dm: fix free_dev del_gendisk 185447 - kernel dm: flush queued bios if suspend is interrupted 185450 - kernel dm: log bitset fix BE find_next_zero_bit 185454 - kernel device-mapper mirroring: table output incorrect 185455 - kernel dm snapshots: replace siblings list 185456 - kernel dm mirroring: suspend operation is not well behaved 185459 - kernel dm snapshots: fix invalidation 185468 - kernel dm: striped access beyond end of device 185754 - [RHEL4 U3] kernel dm mirror: unrelated mirror devices stall if any log device fails 185782 - [RHEL4 U3] device-mapper mirror: Data corruption if the default mirror fails during recovery. 185785 - [RHEL4 U3] device-mapper mirror: Data corruption by temporal errors during recovery. 185991 - kernel dm: bio split bvec fix 186004 - [RHEL4 U3] device-mapper mirror: Write failure region becomes in-sync when suspension. 186057 - CVE-2006-1242 Linux zero IP ID vulnerability? 186066 - Connectathon tests fail against newer Irix server 186071 - NFSD fails SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM 186104 - kernel dm mirror: lvs Copy% overs 100% by lvreduce/lvresize. 186242 - CVE-2006-1343 Small information leak in SO_ORIGINAL_DST 186295 - CVE-2006-0038 netfilters do_replace() overflow 186316 - nvidia cache aliasing problem: change_page_attr drops GLOBAL bit from executable kernel pages 186564 - ACPI 2.0 systems with no XSDT fail to boot 186751 - kernel problem to deal with 3ware 9500SX-12 RAID cards 187249 - [RHEL4 U3] dm-mirror: read stalls if all mirrors failed 187494 - CVE-2006-2275 SCTP traffic probably never resumes 187498 - diskdump_sysfs_store() needs to check sscanf retval 187500 - diskdump_sysfs_store() should check partition number 187501 - device_to_gendisk() is lacking mntput(nd.mnt) on exit 187502 - diskdump - device_to_gendisk() is both racy 187910 - CVE-2006-1056 FPU Information leak on i386/x86-64 on AMD CPUs 187951 - Replication failover fails if the NFS permissions are incorrect on one of the servers... 188080 - kernel dm snapshots: Incorrect processing of incorrect chunk size 188141 - Kernel appears too conservative in memory use 188296 - tlb_clear_slave races with tlb_choose_channel 188912 - Update Qlogic qla2xxx driver in RHEL 4 U4 189127 - Trouble with recent module - one packet is seen more than one time 189198 - VLAN not working on initial startup 189279 - [Stratus RHEL4 U4 bug] unchecked error path in usb_alloc_dev can lead to an Oops. 189390 - RHEL4-U3: openipmi: startup race condition 189392 - Submit Promise RHEL4 driver in-box to RHEL4 CD 189393 - Submit Promise RHEL4 driver in-box to RHEL4 CD 189397 - Submit Promise RHEL4 driver in-box to RHEL4 CD 189797 - dm: Fix mapped device references 190576 - REGRESSION: kabi breakage on ia64_mv 191138 - CVE-2006-0742 Bug in IA64 unaligned access handler causes kernel panic 191139 - installer does not see SATA HDs attached to JMB360 chipset which in legacy mode 191141 - MCE arg parsing broken on x86-64 191723 - device-mapper mirror: Need proper notification of sync status chage on write failure 191847 - REGRESSION: kernel-2.6.9.36 does not boot on ALTIX systems 192098 - Fix problems with MSI-X on 64-bit platforms 192635 - CVE-2006-1857 SCTP HB-ACK chunk overflow 192779 - CVE-2006-2446 LTC20512-kernel BUG in __kfree_skb while running TCP+Kernel stress 193230 - RFE: add pci ids for atiixp 193696 - Not using all available system memory - swapping too aggressive - high load average (iowait) 193728 - A write to a cluster mirror volume not in sync will hang and also cause the sync to hang as well 193838 - gettimeofday goes backwards on IBM x460 merged servers 194215 - CVE-2006-2448 missing access_ok checks in powerpc signal*.c 194533 - veritas storage foundation 32bit apps crash in glibc during post-process installation 195002 - RHEL4 U4 i386 partner beta will not install on ES7000/one 195254 - HP xw9400 network card not getting seen 195502 - Regression: cluster mirror creation cmd hangs even though mirror gets created 196512 - VLANs, tg3 driver, and 2.6.9-34.EL kernel update 196712 - O=/objdir builds fail for out-of-tree builds with 2.6.9-39.4 197387 - CVE-2006-2934 SCTP netfilter DoS with chunkless packets 198321 - kernel freeze at "kernel BUG at kernel/timer.c:420!" 198892 - kernel deadlock on reading /proc/meminfo on 4 CPU's at the same time

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4:

SRPMS: 11a024e010dc8f2e3dbec9f816c8fec5 kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.src.rpm

i386: cba4519a04c6271eafa1ffd5df0708b8 kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm 86bfc2516a07531d321d5f3bf819a67e kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm 5a96a68e49041a8e142a047c7d52d744 kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm 47517050f412936223b130719ae9c7b5 kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm a77cef2d88c5df96f26812e9eb66ab95 kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm 95cc28bb2c8012a19e1ec8c1f8a1eb1d kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm 896615edeb7d593bf330888da95b8315 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm

ia64: 3315efa6779b1d00f227adb085a40e15 kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.ia64.rpm 6d49881cf7c5fc87abd1b224a53dd7c9 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-42.EL.ia64.rpm bb991f581fc4e61757717c64b7c54bf5 kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.ia64.rpm 9638115a8925655c5f72499d4cf34adf kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-42.EL.ia64.rpm f0f98d3d2d789d3ed98219dcf7567de4 kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.ia64.rpm

noarch: 35877d309fcc505f606398f10de3594c kernel-doc-2.6.9-42.EL.noarch.rpm

ppc: d7cb2ee73437c698a1f314f429e0da17 kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.ppc64.rpm 41d0dbfc97d8f31d9b331311fce2e501 kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.ppc64iseries.rpm 2cae20f796673bbd838e6d2d16833c93 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-42.EL.ppc64.rpm 5cb483bf9668209f65ca46c00f503cd6 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-42.EL.ppc64iseries.rpm 05ee813e788213f4284fa8314c53e255 kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.ppc64.rpm b14cf9cd736dbff98fc96afa96bde9eb kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.ppc64iseries.rpm afbaacfef8016ef3de821df78fb35c29 kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-42.EL.ppc64.rpm 7a49c313c8c49af72245ae539296310f kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.ppc64.rpm

s390: 3be376e40170c59099bcac60ae72b230 kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.s390.rpm a6cb721a60628aad7e1ebb84615e1f0a kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-42.EL.s390.rpm d1b563a510c61c9831f6ad58770d3dc3 kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.s390.rpm

s390x: 9a28d8c9f1c17c49971e530b12c2cf52 kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.s390x.rpm c3ce451e9ea457f9292b5f3c42a9e5cd kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-42.EL.s390x.rpm f332531af396a8e88cd0365214098ab6 kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.s390x.rpm

x86_64: d9c9139f0fc50387bc687c2ce91be404 kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm 0ea6b69c6ee7a24db7f45907bb9e2392 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm ea60a89f3b08289381e8be6e6213f6a0 kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm 76868583b4666bfdfd3187f4522be573 kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm 1bc693d3e3e3f304507cab6c8a498a4d kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm ef31d24cf073aeda4a90094f60641bb6 kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm b64aaf4baec4373bde909251bd7924c9 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4:

SRPMS: 11a024e010dc8f2e3dbec9f816c8fec5 kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.src.rpm

i386: cba4519a04c6271eafa1ffd5df0708b8 kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm 86bfc2516a07531d321d5f3bf819a67e kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm 5a96a68e49041a8e142a047c7d52d744 kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm 47517050f412936223b130719ae9c7b5 kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm a77cef2d88c5df96f26812e9eb66ab95 kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm 95cc28bb2c8012a19e1ec8c1f8a1eb1d kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm 896615edeb7d593bf330888da95b8315 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm

noarch: 35877d309fcc505f606398f10de3594c kernel-doc-2.6.9-42.EL.noarch.rpm

x86_64: d9c9139f0fc50387bc687c2ce91be404 kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm 0ea6b69c6ee7a24db7f45907bb9e2392 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm ea60a89f3b08289381e8be6e6213f6a0 kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm 76868583b4666bfdfd3187f4522be573 kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm 1bc693d3e3e3f304507cab6c8a498a4d kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm ef31d24cf073aeda4a90094f60641bb6 kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm b64aaf4baec4373bde909251bd7924c9 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4:

SRPMS: 11a024e010dc8f2e3dbec9f816c8fec5 kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.src.rpm

i386: cba4519a04c6271eafa1ffd5df0708b8 kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm 86bfc2516a07531d321d5f3bf819a67e kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm 5a96a68e49041a8e142a047c7d52d744 kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm 47517050f412936223b130719ae9c7b5 kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm a77cef2d88c5df96f26812e9eb66ab95 kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm 95cc28bb2c8012a19e1ec8c1f8a1eb1d kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm 896615edeb7d593bf330888da95b8315 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm

ia64: 3315efa6779b1d00f227adb085a40e15 kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.ia64.rpm 6d49881cf7c5fc87abd1b224a53dd7c9 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-42.EL.ia64.rpm bb991f581fc4e61757717c64b7c54bf5 kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.ia64.rpm 9638115a8925655c5f72499d4cf34adf kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-42.EL.ia64.rpm f0f98d3d2d789d3ed98219dcf7567de4 kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.ia64.rpm

noarch: 35877d309fcc505f606398f10de3594c kernel-doc-2.6.9-42.EL.noarch.rpm

x86_64: d9c9139f0fc50387bc687c2ce91be404 kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm 0ea6b69c6ee7a24db7f45907bb9e2392 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm ea60a89f3b08289381e8be6e6213f6a0 kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm 76868583b4666bfdfd3187f4522be573 kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm 1bc693d3e3e3f304507cab6c8a498a4d kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm ef31d24cf073aeda4a90094f60641bb6 kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm b64aaf4baec4373bde909251bd7924c9 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4:

SRPMS: 11a024e010dc8f2e3dbec9f816c8fec5 kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.src.rpm

i386: cba4519a04c6271eafa1ffd5df0708b8 kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm 86bfc2516a07531d321d5f3bf819a67e kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm 5a96a68e49041a8e142a047c7d52d744 kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm 47517050f412936223b130719ae9c7b5 kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm a77cef2d88c5df96f26812e9eb66ab95 kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm 95cc28bb2c8012a19e1ec8c1f8a1eb1d kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm 896615edeb7d593bf330888da95b8315 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.i686.rpm

ia64: 3315efa6779b1d00f227adb085a40e15 kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.ia64.rpm 6d49881cf7c5fc87abd1b224a53dd7c9 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-42.EL.ia64.rpm bb991f581fc4e61757717c64b7c54bf5 kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.ia64.rpm 9638115a8925655c5f72499d4cf34adf kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-42.EL.ia64.rpm f0f98d3d2d789d3ed98219dcf7567de4 kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.ia64.rpm

noarch: 35877d309fcc505f606398f10de3594c kernel-doc-2.6.9-42.EL.noarch.rpm

x86_64: d9c9139f0fc50387bc687c2ce91be404 kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm 0ea6b69c6ee7a24db7f45907bb9e2392 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm ea60a89f3b08289381e8be6e6213f6a0 kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm 76868583b4666bfdfd3187f4522be573 kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm 1bc693d3e3e3f304507cab6c8a498a4d kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm ef31d24cf073aeda4a90094f60641bb6 kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm b64aaf4baec4373bde909251bd7924c9 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm

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