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:53.1.4.el5 URL:
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-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5.x86_64.rpm
Build Date:Thu Nov 29 12:39:11 2007
Packager:
Size:75.53 MiB

Changelog

* Wed Nov 14 16:00:00 2007 Anton Arapov <aarapov{%}redhat{*}com> [2.6.18-53.1.4.el5]
- Revert: [fs] sysfs: fix race condition around sd->s_dentry (Eric Sandeen ) [245777] {CVE-2007-3104}
- Revert: [fs] sysfs: fix condition check in sysfs_drop_dentry() (Eric Sandeen ) [245777] {CVE-2007-3104}
- Revert: [fs] sysfs: store inode nrs in s_ino (Eric Sandeen ) [245777] {CVE-2007-3104}
- [net] tg3: Fix performance regression on 5705 (Andy Gospodarek ) [381021]
* Wed Nov 14 16:00:00 2007 Anton Arapov <aarapov{%}redhat{*}com> [2.6.18-53.1.3.el5]
- [fs] missing dput in do_lookup error leaks dentries (Eric Sandeen ) [363481] {CVE-2007-5494}
- [ppc] System cpus stuck in H_JOIN after migrating (Scott Moser ) [381151]
- [scsi] ibmvSCSI: Unable to continue migrating lpar after errors (Scott Moser ) [381141]
- [scsi] ibmvSCSI: client can't handle deactive/active device from server (Scott Moser ) [381121]
- [audit] still allocate contexts when audit is disabled (Alexander Viro ) [381001]
- [autofs4] fix race between mount and expire (Ian Kent ) [381071]
- [net] ieee80211: off-by-two integer underflow (Anton Arapov ) [346391] {CVE-2007-4997}
- [fs] sysfs: fix race condition around sd->s_dentry (Eric Sandeen ) [245777] {CVE-2007-3104}
- [fs] sysfs: fix condition check in sysfs_drop_dentry() (Eric Sandeen ) [245777] {CVE-2007-3104}
- [fs] sysfs: store inode nrs in s_ino (Eric Sandeen ) [245777] {CVE-2007-3104}
- [nfs] v4: umounts oops in shrink_dcache_for_umount (Steve Dickson ) [381111]
- [net] forcedeth: MSI interrupt bugfix (Andy Gospodarek ) [381131]
- [ppc] kexec/kdump kernel hung on Power5+ and Power6 (Scott Moser ) [381101]
* Mon Oct 22 17:00:00 2007 Anton Arapov <aarapov{%}redhat{*}com> [2.6.18-53.1.2.el5]
- [net] bnx2: Add PHY workaround for 5709 A1 (Andy Gospodarek ) [345131]
- [cifs] fix memory corruption due to bad error handling (Jeff Layton ) [345171]
- [audit] improper handling of audit_log_start return values (Eric Paris ) [345151]
- [fs] jbd: wait for t_sync_datalist buffer to complete (Eric Sandeen ) [345141]
- [mm] ia64: flush i-cache before set_pte (Luming Yu ) [345161]
- [x86] Fixes for the tick divider patch (Chris Lalancette ) [305011]
- [alsa] Convert snd-page-alloc proc file to use seq_file (Jerome Marchand ) [297761] {CVE-2007-4571}

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