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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-013
2005-01-10
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Product     : Fedora Core 3
Name        : kernel
Version     : 2.6.10
Release     : 1.737_FC3
Summary     : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
Description :
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 update rebases the kernel to match the upstream 2.6.10 release,
and adds a number of security fixes by means of adding the latest -ac patch.


CAN-2004-1235
  Paul Starzetz from isec.pl found a problem in the binary format loaders uselib()
  function that could lead to potential priveledge escalation.
  http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0021-uselib.txt

NO-CAN-ASSIGNED
  Brad Spengler found several problems.
  - An integer overflow in the random poolsize sysctl handler.
  - SCSI ioctl integer overflow and information leak.
  - RLIMIT_MEMLOCK bypass and unprivileged user DoS.

NO-CAN-ASSIGNED
  Coverity Inc. found a number of bugs with their automated source checker
  in coda, xfs, network bridging, rose network protocol, and the sdla wan driver.
  http://linuxbugs.coverity.com

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* Mon Jan 10 2005 Dave Jones 
- Disable slab debugging.

* Sat Jan 08 2005 Dave Jones 
- Periodic slab debug is incompatable with pagealloc debug.
  Disable the latter.
- Update to 2.6.10-ac8

* Fri Jan 07 2005 Dave Jones 
- Bump up to -ac7
- Another new card reader.

* Thu Jan 06 2005 Dave Jones 
- Rebase to 2.6.10-ac5

* Tue Jan 04 2005 Dave Jones 
- Rebase to 2.6.10-ac4
- Add periodic slab debug checker.

* Mon Jan 03 2005 Dave Jones 
- Drop patch which meant we needed a newer gcc. (#144035)
- Rebase to 2.6.10-ac2
- Enable SL82C104 IDE driver as built-in on PPC64 (#131033)

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This update can be downloaded from:
  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/

3358578123d1f533f59551e3ae57c58d  SRPMS/kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.src.rpm
fefab702da72d80a17f288a732314f2f  x86_64/kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.x86_64.rpm
367a35017888dd291ae5d5e49d3d528f  x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.x86_64.rpm
bdd8a314125cb1999b55c4f6f3cdb246  x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.x86_64.rpm
f48db7fff38c51f651364fc58443c30d  x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.noarch.rpm
36f98dd65ec1765c26770be7e6362a6f  i386/kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.i586.rpm
a7122fda3dd50ac6adb24789fb6d1bba  i386/kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.i586.rpm
415412abd0857a5789da547af0825864  i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.i586.rpm
909a1a29aa29773b1d9918e2a7614844  i386/kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.i686.rpm
30cd263a60bc43a502ce768c2354dc07  i386/kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.i686.rpm
0d19dc4ba95ca24403c8cf8aab1333d4  i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.i686.rpm
f48db7fff38c51f651364fc58443c30d  i386/kernel-doc-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.noarch.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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