RHEL4.6 Updated kernel package kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL Oracle's EL kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.0.1.EL
RHEL kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL [RHSA-2008:0237-01] Important: kernel security and bug fix update 2008-05-07
Oracle's EL kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.0.1.EL [El-errata] ELSA-2008-0237 Important: Enterprise Linux 4 kernel security and bug fix update 2008-05-08
Description of changes:
[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]Oracle's ELのみの変更はkernel-2.6.9-67.0.7.0.1.EL*1からは増えてないけど、kernel-2.6.9-67.0.4.0.1.EL*2に比べてふたつ増えてる。
