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:8.1.15.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: i686

Download:kernel-2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.i686.rpm
Build Date:Mon Oct 22 08:43:35 2007
Packager:
Size:34.10 MiB

Changelog

* Thu Oct 4 17:00:00 2007 Anton Arapov <aarapov{%}redhat{*}com> [2.6.18-8.1.15.el5]
- [dlm] A TCP connection to DLM port blocks DLM operations (Patrick Caulfield ) [245922] {CVE-2007-3380}
- [ppc] 4k page mapping support for userspace in 64k kernels (Scott Moser ) [275841] {CVE-2007-3850}
- [ptrace] NULL pointer dereference triggered by ptrace (Anton Arapov ) [275981] {CVE-2007-3731}
- [fs] hugetlb: fix prio_tree unit (Konrad Rzeszutek ) [253929] {CVE-2007-4133}
- [x86_64] Don't leak NT bit into next task (Dave Anderson ) [298151] {CVE-2007-4574}
- [fs] Reset current->pdeath_signal on SUID binary execution (Peter Zijlstra ) [252307] {CVE-2007-3848}
- [misc] Bounds check ordering issue in random driver (Anton Arapov ) [275961] {CVE-2007-3105}
- [usb] usblcd: Locally triggerable memory consumption (Anton Arapov ) [276001] {CVE-2007-3513}
- [net] igmp: check for NULL when allocating GFP_ATOMIC skbs (Neil Horman ) [303281]
- [scsi] aacraid: Missing ioctl() permission checks (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [298371] {CVE-2007-4308}
- [xen] Guest access to MSR may cause system crash/data corruption (Bhavana Nagendra ) [253312] {CVE-2007-3733}
* Tue Sep 25 17:00:00 2007 Don Howard <dhoward{%}redhat{*}com> [2.6.18-8.1.14.el5]
- Revert changes back to 2.6.18-8.1.10.
- [x86_64] Zero extend all registers after ptrace in 32bit entry path (Anton Arapov ) [297871] {CVE-2007-4573}
* Mon Sep 24 17:00:00 2007 Anton Arapov <aarapov{%}redhat{*}com> [2.6.18-8.1.12.el5]
- [x86_64] Don't leak NT bit into next task (Dave Anderson ) [298151] {CVE-2007-4574}
- [fs] Reset current->pdeath_signal on SUID binary execution (Peter Zijlstra ) [252307] {CVE-2007-3848}
- [misc] Bounds check ordering issue in random driver (Anton Arapov ) [275961] {CVE-2007-3105}
- [usb] usblcd: Locally triggerable memory consumption (Anton Arapov ) [276001] {CVE-2007-3513}
- [x86_64] Zero extend all registers after ptrace in 32bit entry path (Anton Arapov ) [297871] {CVE-2007-4573}
- [net] igmp: check for NULL when allocating GFP_ATOMIC skbs (Neil Horman ) [303281]

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