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HistoryJan 08, 2010 - 12:00 a.m.

kernel security update

2010-01-0800:00:00
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network
memory allocation
hypervisor
cpu
bug fixes
kernel update

EPSS

0.039

Percentile

92.2%

[2.6.9-89.0.19.0.1.EL]

  • 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]
  • backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread (Guru Anbalagane)
    [orabug 6125546]
  • netrx/netpoll race avoidance (Tina Yang) [orabug 6143381]
  • [XEN] Fix elf_core_dump (Tina Yang) [orabug 6995928]
  • use lfence instead of cpuid instruction to implement memory barriers
    (Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 7452412]
  • add netpoll support to xen netfront (Tina Yang) [orabz 7261]
  • [xen] execshield: fix endless GPF fault loop (Stephen Tweedie)
    [orabug 7175395]
  • [xen]: port el5u2 patch that allows 64-bit PVHVM guest to boot with 32-bit
    dom0 [orabug 7452107] xenstore
  • [mm] update shrink_zone patch to allow 100% swap utilization (John Sobecki,
    Chris Mason, Chuck Anderson, Dave McCracken) [orabug 7566319,6086839]
  • [kernel] backport report_lost_ticks patch from EL5.2 (John Sobecki)
    [orabug 6110605]
  • [xen] fix for hung JVM thread after #GPF [orabug 7916406] (Chuck Anderson)
  • port EL5U3 patch to adjust totalhigh_pages in the balloon driver
    [orabug 8300888]
  • check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change (Chuck Anderson) [orabug7556514]
  • [XEN] use hypercall to fixmap pte updates (Mukesh Rathor) [orabug 8433329]
  • [XEN] Extend physical mask to 40bit for machine above 64G [orabug 8312526]
  • fix oops in nlmclnt_mark_reclaim (Trond Myklebust) [orabug 8568878]
  • [x86_64] Allowed machine_reboot running on boot_cpu (Joe Jin) [orabug 8425237]
  • FP register state is corrupted during the handling a SIGSEGV (Chuck Anderson)
    [orabug 7708133]
  • [x86_64]: fix x86_64 largesmp kernel reboot hang (Joe Jin) [orabug bug9126592]
    [2.6.9-89.0.19]
    -net: fix rx length check errors in e1000e (Cong Wang) [551218 551214] {CVE-2009-e1000e}
    -net: fix rx length check errors in e1000 and r8169 (Neil Horman) [550910 550907] {CVE-2009-e1000} {CVE-2009-r8169}