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:8.1.4.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-2.6.18-8.1.4.el5.x86_64.rpm
Build Date:Wed May 16 16:20:14 2007
Packager:
Size:72.58 MiB

Changelog

* Fri May 4 17:00:00 2007 Don Howard <dhoward{%}redhat{*}com> [2.6.18.8.1.4.el5]
- [ipv6] Fix routing regression. (David S. Miller ) [238046]
- [mm] Gdb does not accurately output the backtrace. (Dave Anderson ) [235511]
- [NMI] change watchdog timeout to 30 seconds (Larry Woodman ) [237655]
- [dlm] fix mode munging (David Teigland ) [238731]
- [net] kernel-headers: missing include of types.h (Neil Horman ) [238749]
- [net] fib_semantics.c out of bounds check (Thomas Graf ) [238948] {CVE-2007-2172}
- [net] disallow RH0 by default (Thomas Graf ) [238949] {CVE-2007-2242}
- [net] Fix user OOPS'able bug in FIB netlink (David S. Miller ) [238960] {CVE-2007-1861}
- [net] IPv6 fragments bypass in nf_conntrack netfilter code (Thomas Graf ) [238947] {CVE-2007-1497}
- [net] ipv6_fl_socklist is inadvertently shared (David S. Miller ) [238944] {CVE-2007-1592}
- [net] Various NULL pointer dereferences in netfilter code (Thomas Graf ) [238946] {CVE-2007-1496}
* Mon Apr 16 17:00:00 2007 Don Howard <dhoward{%}redhat{*}com> [2.6.18-8.1.3.el5]
- [s390] page_mkclean causes data corruption on s390 (Jan Glauber ) [236605]
* Wed Mar 28 17:00:00 2007 Don Howard <dhoward{%}redhat{*}com> [2.6.18-8.1.2.el5]
- [utrace] exploit and unkillable cpu fixes (Roland McGrath ) [228816] (CVE-2007-0771)
- [net] IPV6 security holes in ipv6_sockglue.c - 2 (David S. Miller ) [232257] {CVE-2007-1000}
- [net] IPV6 security holes in ipv6_sockglue.c (David S. Miller ) [232255] {CVE-2007-1388}
- [audit] GFP_KERNEL allocations in non-blocking context fix (Alexander Viro ) [233157]

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