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kernel - The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)

Website: http://www.kernel.org/
License: GPLv2
Vendor: Scientific Linux CERN, http://cern.ch/linux
Description:
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic functions
of the operating system:  memory allocation, process allocation, device
input and output, etc.

Packages

kernel-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.ia64 [29.1 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2010-03-01):
- [net] sctp: backport cleanups for ootb handling V2 (Neil Horman) [555666 555667] {CVE-2010-0008}
- Reverting: [net] sctp: backport cleanups for ootb handling (Neil Horman) [555666 555667] {CVE-2010-0008}
kernel-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.ia64 [29.1 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2010-01-06):
- [firewire] ohci: handle receive packets with zero data (Jay Fenlason) [547241 547242] {CVE-2009-4138}
- [x86] sanity check for AMD northbridges (Andrew Jones) [549905 547518]
- [x86_64] disable vsyscall in kvm guests (Glauber Costa) [550968 542612]
- [fs] ext3: replace lock_super with explicit resize lock (Eric Sandeen) [549908 525100]
- [fs] respect flag in do_coredump (Danny Feng) [544188 544189] {CVE-2009-4036}
- [gfs2] make O_APPEND behave as expected (Steven Whitehouse) [547521 544342]
- [fs] hfs: fix a potential buffer overflow (Amerigo Wang) [540740 540741] {CVE-2009-4020}
- [fuse] prevent fuse_put_request on invalid pointer (Danny Feng) [538736 538737] {CVE-2009-4021}
- [mm] call vfs_check_frozen after unlocking the spinlock (Amerigo Wang) [548370 541956]
- [infiniband] init neigh->dgid.raw on bonding events (Doug Ledford) [543448 538067]
- [scsi] gdth: prevent negative offsets in ioctl (Amerigo Wang) [539420 539421] {CVE-2009-3080}
- [fs] gfs2: fix glock ref count issues (Steven Whitehouse) [544978 539240]
- [net] call cond_resched in rt_run_flush (Amerigo Wang) [547530 517588]
- [scsi] megaraid: fix sas permissions in sysfs (Casey Dahlin) [537312 537313] {CVE-2009-3889 CVE-2009-3939}
- [ia64] kdump: restore registers in the stack on init (Takao Indoh ) [542582 515753]
- [x86] kvm: don't ask HV for tsc khz if not using kvmclock (Glauber Costa ) [537027 531268]
- [net] sched: fix panic in bnx2_poll_work (John Feeney ) [539686 526481]
- [x86_64] fix 32-bit process register leak (Amerigo Wang ) [526797 526798]
- [cpufreq] add option to avoid smi while calibrating (Matthew Garrett ) [537343 513649]
- [kvm] use upstream kvm_get_tsc_khz (Glauber Costa ) [540896 531025]
- [net] fix unbalance rtnl locking in rt_secret_reschedule (Neil Horman ) [549907 510067]
- [net] r8169: imporved rx length check errors (Neil Horman ) [552913 552438]
- [scsi] lpfc: fix FC ports offlined during target controller faults (Rob Evers ) [549906 516541]
- [net] emergency route cache flushing fixes (Thomas Graf ) [545662 545663] {CVE-2009-4272}
- [fs] fasync: split 'fasync_helper()' into separate add/remove functions (Danny Feng ) [548656 548657] {CVE-2009-4141}
- [scsi] qla2xxx: NPIV vport management pseudofiles are world writable (Tom Coughlan ) [537317 537318] {CVE-2009-3556}
kernel-2.6.18-164.10.1.el5.ia64 [29.1 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-12-30):
- [net] e1000, r9169: fix rx length check errors (Cong Wang ) [550914 550915]
- [net] e1000e: fix rx length check errors (Amerigo Wang ) [551222 551223]
- [net] ipv6: fix ipv6_hop_jumbo remote system crash (Amerigo Wang ) [548642 548643] {CVE-2007-4567}
kernel-2.6.18-164.9.1.el5.ia64 [29.1 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-12-09):
- [x86] fix stale data in shared_cpu_map cpumasks (Prarit Bhargava) [545583 541953]
kernel-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.ia64 [29.1 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-10-27):
- [fs] fix pipe null pointer dereference (Jeff Moyer) [530938 530939] {CVE-2009-3547}
- [security] require root for mmap_min_addr (Eric Paris ) [518142 518143] {CVE-2009-2695}
- [net] lvs: adjust sync protocol handling for ipvsadm -2 (Neil Horman ) [528645 524129]
- [xen] allow booting with broken serial hardware (Chris Lalancette ) [524153 518338]
kernel-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.ia64 [29.0 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-09-21):
- [x86_64] kvm: bound last_kvm to prevent backwards time (Glauber Costa ) [524527 524076]
- [x86] kvm: fix vsyscall going backwards (Glauber Costa ) [524527 524076]
- [misc] fix RNG to not use first generated random block (Neil Horman ) [523289 522860]
- [x86] kvm: mark kvmclock_init as cpuinit (Glauber Costa ) [524151 523450]
- [x86_64] kvm: allow kvmclock to be overwritten (Glauber Costa ) [524150 523447]
- [x86] kvmclock: fix bogus wallclock value (Glauber Costa ) [524152 519771]
- [scsi] scsi_dh_rdace: add more sun hardware (mchristi@redhat.com ) [523237 518496]
- [misc] cprng: fix cont test to be fips compliant (Neil Horman ) [523290 523259]
- [net] bridge: fix LRO crash with tun (Andy Gospodarek ) [522636 483646]
- Revert: [x86_64] fix gettimeoday TSC overflow issue - 1 (Don Zickus ) [489847 467942]
- Revert: [net] atalk/irda: memory leak to user in getname (Danny Feng ) [519309 519310] {CVE-2009-3001 CVE-2009-3002}
kernel-2.6.18-164.el5.ia64 [29.0 MiB] Changelog by Don Zickus (2009-08-18):
- [misc] information leak in sigaltstack (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [515396]
- [misc] execve: must clear current->clear_child_tid (Oleg Nesterov ) [515429]
- [net] igb: set lan id prior to configuring phy (Stefan Assmann ) [508870]
- [net] udp: socket NULL ptr dereference (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [518043] {CVE-2009-2698}
kernel-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.ia64 [27.8 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-08-19):
- [net] prevent null pointer dereference in udp_sendmsg (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [518047 518043] {CVE-2009-2698}
kernel-2.6.18-128.4.1.el5.ia64 [27.8 MiB] Changelog by Don Howard (2009-07-23):
- [fs] ecryptfs: check tag 11 packet literal data buffer size (Eric Sandeen ) [512862 512863] {CVE-2009-2406}
- [fs] ecryptfs: check tag 3 packet encrypted key size (Eric Sandeen ) [512886 512887] {CVE-2009-2407}
- [misc] personality handling: fix PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [511173 508842] {CVE-2009-1895}
- [xen] HV: remove high latency spin_lock (Chris Lalancette ) [512311 459410]
kernel-2.6.18-128.2.1.el5.ia64 [27.8 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-07-08):
- Revert: [mm] cow vs gup race fix (Andrea Arcangeli ) [486921 471613]
- Revert: [mm] fork vs gup race fix (Andrea Arcangeli ) [486921 471613]
- Revert: [mm] fix swap race condition in fork-gup-race patch (Andrea Arcangeli ) [507297 506684]
- Revert: [mm] prevent panic in copy_hugetlb_page_range (Larry Woodman ) [508030 507860]
kernel-2.6.18-128.1.16.el5.ia64 [27.7 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-06-26):
- [mm] prevent panic in copy_hugetlb_page_range (Larry Woodman ) [508030 507860]
kernel-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.ia64 [27.7 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-06-01):
- [nfs] v4: client handling of MAY_EXEC in nfs_permission (Peter Staubach ) [500301 500302] {CVE-2009-1630}
- [fs] proc: avoid info leaks to non-privileged processes (Amerigo Wang ) [499546 499541]
- [net] tg3: Fix firmware event timeouts (Jiri Pirko ) [502837 481715]
- [scsi] libiscsi: fix nop response/reply and session cleanup race (Jiri Pirko ) [502916 497411]
- [fs] cifs: fix pointer and checks in cifs_follow_symlink (Jeff Layton ) [496576 496577] {CVE-2009-1633}
- [fs] cifs: fix error handling in parse_DFS_referrals (Jeff Layton ) [496576 496577] {CVE-2009-1633}
- [fs] cifs: buffer overruns when converting strings (Jeff Layton ) [496576 496577] {CVE-2009-1633}
- [fs] cifs: unicode alignment and buffer sizing problems (Jeff Layton ) [494279 494280] {CVE-2009-1439}
- [x86] xen: fix local denial of service (Chris Lalancette ) [500950 500951] {CVE-2009-1758}
- [misc] compile: add -fwrapv to gcc CFLAGS (Don Zickus ) [501751 491266]
- [misc] random: make get_random_int more random (Amerigo Wang ) [499783 499776]
- [gfs2] fix uninterruptible quotad sleeping (Steven Whitehouse ) [501742 492943]
- [mm] cow vs gup race fix (Andrea Arcangeli ) [486921 471613]
- [mm] fork vs gup race fix (Andrea Arcangeli ) [486921 471613]
- [nfs] fix hangs during heavy write workloads (Peter Staubach ) [486926 469848]
kernel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.ia64 [27.7 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-04-29):
- [fs] fix softlockup in posix_locks_deadlock (Josef Bacik ) [496842 476659]
kernel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.ia64 [27.7 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-03-24):
- [x86] add nonstop_tsc flag in /proc/cpuinfo (Luming Yu ) [489310 474091]
kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.ia64 [27.7 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-01-26):
- [security] introduce missing kfree (Jiri Pirko ) [480597 480598] {CVE-2009-0031}
- [sched] fix clock_gettime monotonicity (Peter Zijlstra ) [481122 477763]
- [nfs] create rpc clients with proper auth flavor (Jeff Layton ) [481119 465456]
- [net] sctp: overflow with bad stream ID in FWD-TSN chunk (Eugene Teo ) [478804 478805] {CVE-2009-0065}
- [md] fix oops with device-mapper mirror target (Heinz Mauelshagen ) [481120 472558]
- [openib] restore traffic in connected mode on HCA (AMEET M. PARANJAPE ) [479812 477000]
- [net] add preemption point in qdisc_run (Jiri Pirko ) [477746 471398] {CVE-2008-5713}
- [x86_64] copy_user_c assembler can leave garbage in rsi (Larry Woodman ) [481117 456682]
- [misc] setpgid returns ESRCH in some situations (Oleg Nesterov ) [480576 472433]
- [s390] zfcp: fix hexdump data in s390dbf traces (Hans-Joachim Picht ) [480996 470618]
- [fs] hfsplus: fix buffer overflow with a corrupted image (Anton Arapov ) [469637 469638] {CVE-2008-4933}
- [fs] hfsplus: check read_mapping_page return value (Anton Arapov ) [469644 469645] {CVE-2008-4934}
- [fs] hfs: fix namelength memory corruption (Anton Arapov ) [470772 470773] {CVE-2008-5025}
kernel-2.6.18-128.el5.ia64 [31.5 MiB] Changelog by Don Zickus (2008-12-17):
- [cifs] cifs_writepages may skip unwritten pages (Jeff Layton ) [470267]
kernel-2.6.18-92.1.24.el5.ia64 [25.8 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-01-08):
- [net] fix unix sockets kernel panic (Neil Horman ) [470435 470436] {CVE-2008-5029}
kernel-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5.ia64 [29.4 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2008-11-05):
- [xen] x86: allow the kernel to boot on pre-64 bit hw (Chris Lalancette ) [470040 468083]
kernel-2.6.18-92.1.17.el5.ia64 [29.4 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2008-10-22):
- Revert: [nfs] pages of a memory mapped file get corrupted (Peter Staubach ) [450335 435291]
kernel-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.ia64 [29.4 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2008-09-04):
- [md] fix crashes in iterate_rdev (Doug Ledford ) [460128 455471]
- [sound] snd_seq_oss_synth_make_info info leak (Eugene Teo ) [458000 458001] {CVE-2008-3272}
- [ipmi] control BMC device ordering (peterm@redhat.com ) [459071 430157]
- [ia64] fix to check module_free parameter (Masami Hiramatsu ) [460639 457961]
-  [misc] NULL pointer dereference in kobject_get_path (Jiri Pirko ) [459776 455460]
- [xen] ia64: SMP-unsafe with XENMEM_add_to_physmap on HVM (Tetsu Yamamoto ) [459780 457137]
- [net] bridge: eliminate delay on carrier up (Herbert Xu ) [458783 453526]
- [fs] dio: lock refcount operations (Jeff Moyer ) [459082 455750]
- [misc]  serial: fix break handling for i82571 over LAN (Aristeu Rozanski ) [460509 440018]
- [fs] dio: use kzalloc to zero out struct dio (Jeff Moyer ) [461091 439918]
- [fs] lockd: nlmsvc_lookup_host called with f_sema held (Jeff Layton ) [459083 453094]
- [net] bnx2x: chip reset and port type fixes (Andy Gospodarek ) [441259 442026]
kernel-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.ia64 [29.4 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2008-07-23):
- [ia64] softlock: prevent endless warnings in kdump (Neil Horman ) [456117 453200]

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