System Environment/Kernel

kernel-debug: The Linux kernel compiled with extra debugging enabled.

Name:kernel-debug Vendor:Scientific Linux
Version:2.6.18 License:GPLv2
Release:53.1.21.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. This variant of the kernel has numerous debugging options enabled. It should only be installed when trying to gather additional information on kernel bugs, as some of these options impact performance noticably.

Arch: i686

Download:kernel-debug-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5.i686.rpm
Build Date:Tue May 20 09:03:31 2008
Packager:
Size:36.41 MiB

Changelog

* Wed May 7 17:00:00 2008 Anton Arapov <aarapov{%}redhat{*}com> [2.6.18-53.1.21.el5]
- [misc] infinite loop in highres timers (Michal Schmidt ) [440001]
- [video] PWC driver DoS (Pete Zaitcev ) [308521]
- [x86_64] fix unprivileged crash on %cs corruption (Jarod Wilson ) [439787]
- [net] ESP: ensure IV is in linear part of the skb (Thomas Graf ) [427247]
- [cpufreq] booting with maxcpus=1 panics (Doug Chapman ) [429516]
- [net] sunrpc: lockd recovery is broken (Steve Dickson ) [445360]
- [cpufreq] don't take sem in cpufreq_quick_get (Doug Chapman ) [400821]
- [cpufreq] remove hotplug cpu cruft (Doug Chapman ) [400821]
- [cpufreq] governor: use new rwsem locking in work cb (Doug Chapman ) [400821]
- [cpufreq] ondemand governor restructure the work cb (Doug Chapman ) [400821]
- [cpufreq] rewrite lock to eliminate hotplug issues (Doug Chapman ) [400821]
* Mon Apr 28 17:00:00 2008 Anton Arapov <aarapov{%}redhat{*}com> [2.6.18-53.1.20.el5]
- [misc] fix softlockup warnings/crashes (Chris Lalancette ) [444402]
* Tue Apr 22 17:00:00 2008 Anton Arapov <aarapov{%}redhat{*}com> [2.6.18-53.1.19.el5]
- [xen] check num of segments in block backend driver (Bill Burns ) [378281]
- [x86_64] update IO-APIC dest field to 8-bit for xAPIC (Dave Anderson ) [442922]
- Update: [fs] fix race condition in dnotify (Alexander Viro ) [439758] {CVE-2008-1375}
- Update: [xen] ia64: ftp stress test fixes between HVM/Dom0 (Tetsu Yamamoto ) [427400] {CVE-2008-1619}

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