Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4: RHSA-2005:420-01 Critical Kernel DoS Issue

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

133590 - PTRACE_ATTACH race with real parent's wait calls can produced bogus wait returns 134338 - Intolerable Disk I/O Performance under 64-bit VM: fix I/O buffers 137154 - "waitid(POSIX Interface)" cannot run properly. 138563 - [PATCH] RHEL4 U1: EFI GPT: reduce alternate header probing 140083 - lx-choptp19 crashed running 2.4.21-20.EL.BZ131027.hotfixhugemem 140383 - BLKFLSBUF ioctl can cause other reads 140472 - x86, x86_64 and IA64 scsi inquiry command hangs in wait_for_completion 141983 - RHEL4 U2: DBS: quiet warning messages from cpufreq.c 142167 - [RHEL4][Diskdump] smp_call_function issue 142464 - [PATCH] "RPC: garbage, exit EIO" when using NFSv3 with Kerberos 5 143073 - traced process cannot be killed 143472 - hugetlb mmap failed in compatibility mode in em64t 143907 - ext2 and device dm-0 byond 2Terabyte causes /var/log/messages file size to crash system 144741 - RHEL4 U1: ICH7 Support patch 145424 - problems with ipsec from rhel3 to rhel4 146067 - [PATCH] Channel bonding driver configured in 802.3 ad mode causes kernel panic when shutdwon 146089 - 20050115 ptrace/kill and ptrace/dump race fixes 146703 - NLM (NFSv3) problems when mounting with "sec=krb5" 146797 - SCTP memory consumption and system freezes 146911 - Thread suspension via async signal fails on rhel4-rc2 147832 - oom-killer triggered during Red Hat Cert 150110 - chipset identifier for zx2 150151 - Lockd callbacks to NFS clients fail completely 151284 - mmap of file over NFS corrupts data 152101 - host panics when mounting nfs4 volumes 152102 - host loses connection to nfs server when the server is solaris 152557 - 20050117 Oopsable NFS locking 154221 - Thread exits siliently via __RESTORE_ALL exeception for iret 154639 - kernel thread current->mm dereference in grab_swap_token causes oops 154972 - unexplained SIGSEGV death in SIGSEGV signal handler 155283 - CAN-2005-0136 ptrace corner cases on ia64 155765 - oops on 2.6.9-5.0.5.ELsmp 156875 - libata - master supports lba48 but slave does not 157450 - CAN-2005-1263 Linux kernel ELF core dump privilege elevation

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4:

SRPMS: 708e5239dd9d9a9a425d0f5d77489806 kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.src.rpm

i386: 8cd6de3e57442035516b60f12911e067 kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm ecc10b63ecd7c909e0272eb86f2d21c0 kernel-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm 0a3ca2d16911ce2f882b16d00b459683 kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm 2938d82720a88684d78735307c154d7b kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm 84082bb98ce1d8131e67622e9584d209 kernel-smp-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm 23a494cfcc0161ab8504e3200a3ee5a0 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm

ia64: 2892022024e23e29b1c1da1100c0ef8b kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.ia64.rpm a51565dfad63ff5ff980e9ceb30e51cd kernel-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.ia64.rpm

noarch: bda3f275715e889b1b1111cd5b372873 kernel-doc-2.6.9-11.EL.noarch.rpm

ppc: 8dcdc040cbd00928243a20775d5123d6 kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.ppc64.rpm a0e9ca3943927b5cff3b6f238d4ff5d0 kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.ppc64iseries.rpm 1cf5c458b3ecc950277ea59d8f0400c9 kernel-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.ppc64.rpm e92a1ba8d256a695153d87e9e8ba0ad6 kernel-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.ppc64iseries.rpm

s390: c91ca50ecb980e3abbead7c520e9569d kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.s390.rpm c3520b5d55fa1102c2100d56173aecc5 kernel-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.s390.rpm

s390x: ecf96ac8781675ec8678a73423e3dab9 kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.s390x.rpm 1ca331b341899002794c77de16f17104 kernel-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.s390x.rpm

x86_64: 160141d384ecd5b072a0476b6dd07973 kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.x86_64.rpm 805b6de472bbe54f74028c823fd82d78 kernel-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.x86_64.rpm eedc9ef7106687b1177a688371c004c2 kernel-smp-2.6.9-11.EL.x86_64.rpm 35606ad7ab97e97d6f1a88776b6d389c kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4:

SRPMS: 708e5239dd9d9a9a425d0f5d77489806 kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.src.rpm

i386: 8cd6de3e57442035516b60f12911e067 kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm ecc10b63ecd7c909e0272eb86f2d21c0 kernel-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm 0a3ca2d16911ce2f882b16d00b459683 kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm 2938d82720a88684d78735307c154d7b kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm 84082bb98ce1d8131e67622e9584d209 kernel-smp-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm 23a494cfcc0161ab8504e3200a3ee5a0 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm

noarch: bda3f275715e889b1b1111cd5b372873 kernel-doc-2.6.9-11.EL.noarch.rpm

x86_64: 160141d384ecd5b072a0476b6dd07973 kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.x86_64.rpm 805b6de472bbe54f74028c823fd82d78 kernel-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.x86_64.rpm eedc9ef7106687b1177a688371c004c2 kernel-smp-2.6.9-11.EL.x86_64.rpm 35606ad7ab97e97d6f1a88776b6d389c kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4:

SRPMS: 708e5239dd9d9a9a425d0f5d77489806 kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.src.rpm

i386: 8cd6de3e57442035516b60f12911e067 kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm ecc10b63ecd7c909e0272eb86f2d21c0 kernel-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm 0a3ca2d16911ce2f882b16d00b459683 kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm 2938d82720a88684d78735307c154d7b kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm 84082bb98ce1d8131e67622e9584d209 kernel-smp-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm 23a494cfcc0161ab8504e3200a3ee5a0 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm

ia64: 2892022024e23e29b1c1da1100c0ef8b kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.ia64.rpm a51565dfad63ff5ff980e9ceb30e51cd kernel-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.ia64.rpm

noarch: bda3f275715e889b1b1111cd5b372873 kernel-doc-2.6.9-11.EL.noarch.rpm

x86_64: 160141d384ecd5b072a0476b6dd07973 kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.x86_64.rpm 805b6de472bbe54f74028c823fd82d78 kernel-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.x86_64.rpm eedc9ef7106687b1177a688371c004c2 kernel-smp-2.6.9-11.EL.x86_64.rpm 35606ad7ab97e97d6f1a88776b6d389c kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4:

SRPMS: 708e5239dd9d9a9a425d0f5d77489806 kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.src.rpm

i386: 8cd6de3e57442035516b60f12911e067 kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm ecc10b63ecd7c909e0272eb86f2d21c0 kernel-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm 0a3ca2d16911ce2f882b16d00b459683 kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm 2938d82720a88684d78735307c154d7b kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm 84082bb98ce1d8131e67622e9584d209 kernel-smp-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm 23a494cfcc0161ab8504e3200a3ee5a0 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm

ia64: 2892022024e23e29b1c1da1100c0ef8b kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.ia64.rpm a51565dfad63ff5ff980e9ceb30e51cd kernel-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.ia64.rpm

noarch: bda3f275715e889b1b1111cd5b372873 kernel-doc-2.6.9-11.EL.noarch.rpm

x86_64: 160141d384ecd5b072a0476b6dd07973 kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.x86_64.rpm 805b6de472bbe54f74028c823fd82d78 kernel-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.x86_64.rpm eedc9ef7106687b1177a688371c004c2 kernel-smp-2.6.9-11.EL.x86_64.rpm 35606ad7ab97e97d6f1a88776b6d389c kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.x86_64.rpm

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