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oraclelinuxOracleELSA-2008-0237
HistoryMay 07, 2008 - 12:00 a.m.

kernel security and bug fix update

2008-05-0700:00:00
Oracle
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66.7%

[2.6.9-67.0.15.0.1.EL]

  • fix skb alignment that was causing sendto() to fail with EFAULT (Olaf Kirch) [orabug 6845794]
  • fix entropy flag in bnx2 driver to generate entropy pool (John Sobecki) [orabug 5931647]
  • 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]
  • remove patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread [orabug 6125546]
  • allow more than 4GB hugepage for single user (Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 6002738]
  • netrx/netpoll race avoidance (Tina Yang) [orabug 6143381]
    [2.6.9-67.0.15]
    -fix kabi breakage in 67.0.14
    [2.6.9-67.0.14]
    -fs: serialize file access for dnotify (Alexander Viro) [443437] {CVE-2008-1669}
    -update: fix race condition in dnotify (Alexander Viro) [439756] {CVE-2008-1375}
    [2.6.9-67.0.13]
    -Revert: Add HP DL580 G5 to bfsort whitelist (Tony Camuso) [437976]
    [2.6.9-67.0.12]
    -fs: fix race condition in dnotify (Alexander Viro) [439756] {CVE-2008-1375}
    [2.6.9-67.0.11]
    -nfs: High vm pagecache reclaim latency on systems with large highmem to lowmem ratio fix (Larry Woodman) [438345]
    -nfs: Fix nfs read performance regression. Introduce a new tunable (Larry Woodman) [438477]
    -Retry: check to see if agp is valid before reporting aperture size warnings (Brian Maly) [392771 431897]
    -Ensure IV is in linear part of the skb to avoid BUG due to OOB access (Thomas Graf) [427245] {CVE-2007-6282}
    -fix unprivileged crash on x86_64 cs corruption (Jarod Wilson) [439786] {CVE-2008-1615}
    [2.6.9-67.0.10]
    -update: do not return zero in mmap (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [400811]
    -neofb: avoid overwriting fb_info fields (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [430251]
    -[NET] link_watch: always schedule urgent events (Don Dutile) [436102]
    -nlm: fix a client side race on blocking locks (Jeff Layton) [436129]
    -nlm: cleanup for blocked locks (Jeff Layton) [436129]
    -Add HP DL580 G5 to bfsort whitelist (Tony Camuso) [437976]
    -nfs: Discard pagecache data for dirs on denty_iput (Jeff Layton) [437788]
    [2.6.9-67.0.9]
    -[NET] link_watch: handle jiffies wraparound (Vince Worthington) [436749]
    -libata: un-blacklist hitachi drives to enable NCQ (David Milburn) [436499]
    -libata: sata_nv may send commands with duplicate tags (David Milburn) [436499]
    [2.6.9-67.0.8]
    -Insufficient range checks in fault handlers with mremap (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [428968] {CVE-2008-0007}
    -[MOXA] buffer overflow in moxa driver (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [423131] {CVE-2005-0504}
    -Fix unix stream socket recv race condition (Hideo AOKI) [435122]