System Environment/Kernel

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

Name:kernel Vendor:Scientific Linux
Version:2.6.18 License:GPLv2
Release:128.4.1.el5 URL:http://www.kernel.org/
Summary
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.

Arch: x86_64

Download:kernel-2.6.18-128.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
Build Date:Tue Aug 4 13:20:54 2009
Packager:
Size:83.58 MiB

Changelog

* Thu Jul 23 17:00:00 2009 Don Howard <dhoward{%}redhat{*}com> [2.6.18-128.4.1.el5]
- [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]
* Mon Jul 13 17:00:00 2009 Jiri Pirko <jpirko{%}redhat{*}com> [2.6.18-128.3.1.el5]
- [pci] quirk: disable MSI on VIA VT3364 chipsets (Dean Nelson ) [507529 501374]
- [char] tty: prevent an O_NDELAY writer from blocking (Mauro Carvalho Chehab ) [510239 506806]
- [misc] hrtimer: fix a soft lockup (Amerigo Wang ) [418061 418071] {CVE-2007-5966}
- [misc] hrtimer: check relative timeouts for overflow (AMEET M. PARANJAPE ) [510018 492230]
* Wed Jul 8 17:00:00 2009 Jiri Pirko <jpirko{%}redhat{*}com> [2.6.18-128.2.1.el5]
- Branch build from 2.6.18-128.1.16
- Reverted patches for bug 486921, 507297 and 508030

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