Miscellaneous Included Packages

kernel: the linux kernel (the core of the linux operating system)

Name:kernel Vendor:Scientific Linux
Version:2.6.9 License:GPLv2
Release:67.0.4.EL 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: i686

Download:kernel-2.6.9-67.0.4.EL.i686.rpm
Build Date:Thu Jan 31 15:43:39 2008
Packager:
Size:28.29 MiB

Changelog

* Fri Jan 18 18:00:00 2008 Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk{%}redhat{*}com> [2.6.9-67.0.4]
-fix filesystem corruption by unprivileged user via directory truncation (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [428794] {CVE-2008-0001}
-ia64: fix panic caused by set_mempolicy with MPOL_BIND (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [293201] {CVE-2007-4130}
* Thu Jan 17 18:00:00 2008 Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk{%}redhat{*}com> [2.6.9-67.0.3]
-revert: acpiphp: Examine slots below P2P bridges (Prarit Bhargava) [428174]
* Wed Jan 16 18:00:00 2008 Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk{%}redhat{*}com> [2.6.9-67.0.2]
-fix core dump file permissions (Don Howard) [396971] {CVE-2007-6206}
-isdn: fix isdn_ioctl memory issue (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [425151] {CVE-2007-6151}
-isdn: fix isdn_net_setcfg() vulnerability (Aristeu Rozanski) [392121] {CVE-2007-6063}
-acpiphp: Examine slots below P2P bridges (Prarit Bhargava) [428174]
-fix kernel hang in ptrace code (Jerome Marchand) {CVE-2007-5500} [382181]
-ppc: fix possible NULL pointer dereference in show_cpuinfo code (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [396801]
-fix kernel panic caused by pvmove in dm-raid1 (Milan Broz) [428637]

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