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oraclelinuxOracleELSA-2008-0607
HistoryJul 24, 2008 - 12:00 a.m.

kernel security and bug fix update

2008-07-2400:00:00
Oracle
linux.oracle.com
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0.894 High

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[2.6.9-67.0.22.0.1.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]
  • fix pv guest oops on live migration (Chuck Anderson) [orabugz 4118]

[2.6.9-67.0.22]
-[revert] sys_times: Fix system unresponsiveness during many concurrent invocation of sys_times (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [449101 435280]

[2.6.9-67.0.21]
-rpc: do not block on skb allocation (Jeff Layton) [450185 439436]
-Fix deadlock possibility in arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown() (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [450760 450094]
-[usb] ohci-hcd: Fix kernel failed to boot and dropped to xmon on ppc64 (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [450865 443052]
-sctp: make sure length argument passed does not overflow (Neil Horman) [452479 452480] {CVE-2008-2826}
-sit: Fix exploitable remote memory leak (Jiri Pirko) [446035 446036] {CVE-2008-2136}