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kernel: The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
| Name: | kernel |
Vendor: | Scientific Linux |
| Version: | 2.6.18 |
License: | GPLv2 |
| Release: | 164.11.1.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.
Changelog
- * Wed Jan 6 16:00:00 2010 Jiri Pirko <jpirko{%}redhat{*}com> [2.6.18-164.11.1.el5]
- [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}
- * Wed Dec 30 16:00:00 2009 Jiri Pirko <jpirko{%}redhat{*}com> [2.6.18-164.10.1.el5]
- [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}
- * Wed Dec 9 16:00:00 2009 Jiri Pirko <jpirko{%}redhat{*}com> [2.6.18-164.9.1.el5]
- [x86] fix stale data in shared_cpu_map cpumasks (Prarit Bhargava) [545583 541953]