System Environment/Kernel

kernel-BOOT: The version of the Linux kernel used on installation boot disks.

Name:kernel-BOOT Vendor:Scientific Linux
Version:2.4.21 License:GPLv2
Release:53.EL URL:
Summary
This package includes a trimmed down version of the Linux kernel. This kernel is used on the installation boot disks only and should not be used for an installed system, as many features in this kernel are turned off because of the size constraints of floppy disks.

Arch: i386

Download:kernel-BOOT-2.4.21-53.EL.i386.rpm
Build Date:Mon Dec 3 12:27:49 2007
Packager:
Size:10.53 MiB

Changelog

* Tue Nov 13 18:00:00 2007 Don Howard <dhoward{%}redhat{*}com> kernel-2.4.21-53.EL
- Fix ipv4 treason uncloaked message (Anton Arapov) [249237]
- Fix ipv4 fib-sem-out-of-bounds checking (Don Howard) [250429] {CVE-2007-2172}
- Reset current->pdeath_signal on SUID binary execution (Peter Zijlstra) [251117] {CVE-2007-3848}
- Fix local DoS with corrupted elf on ia64 (Don Howard) [289171] {CVE-2006-4538}
- prevent stack from growing into hugepages region (Don Howard) [294951] {CVE-2007-3739}
- Fix missing ioctl permission checks in aacraid (Don Howard) [298331] {CVE-2007-4308}
* Mon Sep 24 19:00:00 2007 Don Howard <dhoward{%}redhat{*}com> kernel-2.4.21-52.EL
- Validate all 64bits of ptrace information. (Don Howard)
* Tue Jul 24 19:00:00 2007 Jerome Marchand <jmarchan{%}redhat{*}com> kernel-2.4.21-51.EL
- properly initialized e1000 ESB2 NIC RX unit (Andy Gospodarek)
- fix e1000: ESB2 register value causes an rlogin problem (Vince Worthington)
- fix bluetooth setsockopt() information leaks (Don Howard)
- fix overflow in CAPI subsystem (Don Howard)

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