Synopsis:	Important: kernel security and bug fix update
Issue date:	2007-12-19
CVE Names:	CVE-2007-4997 CVE-2007-5494

A flaw was found in the handling of IEEE 802.11 frames, which affected
several wireless LAN modules. In certain situations, a remote attacker
could trigger this flaw by sending a malicious packet over a wireless
network, causing a denial of service (kernel crash).
(CVE-2007-4997, Important)

A memory leak was found in the Red Hat Content Accelerator kernel patch.
A local user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service (memory
exhaustion). (CVE-2007-5494, Important)

Additionally, the following bugs were fixed:

* when running the "ls -la" command on an NFSv4 mount point, incorrect
file attributes, and outdated file size and timestamp information were
returned. As well, symbolic links may have been displayed as actual files.

* a bug which caused the cmirror write path to appear deadlocked after a
successful recovery, which may have caused syncing to hang, has been
resolved.

* a kernel panic which occurred when manually configuring LCS interfaces on
the IBM S/390 has been resolved.

* when running a 32-bit binary on a 64-bit system, it was possible to
mmap page at address 0 without flag MAP_FIXED set. This has been
resolved in these updated packages.

* the Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) Watchdog did not increment the NMI
interrupt counter in "/proc/interrupts" on systems running an AMD Opteron
CPU. This caused systems running NMI Watchdog to restart at regular
intervals.

* a bug which caused the diskdump utility to run very slowly on devices
using Fusion MPT has been resolved.

SL 4.x

    SRPMS:
kernel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.src.rpm
    i386:
kernel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
   Dependancies:
cman-kernel-2.6.9-53.6.i686.rpm
cman-kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-53.6.i686.rpm
cman-kernel-smp-2.6.9-53.6.i686.rpm
cman-kernel-xenU-2.6.9-53.6.i686.rpm
cman-kernheaders-2.6.9-53.6.i686.rpm
cmirror-kernel-2.6.9-38.6.i686.rpm
cmirror-kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-38.6.i686.rpm
cmirror-kernel-smp-2.6.9-38.6.i686.rpm
cmirror-kernel-xenU-2.6.9-38.6.i686.rpm
dlm-kernel-2.6.9-52.3.i686.rpm
dlm-kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-52.3.i686.rpm
dlm-kernel-smp-2.6.9-52.3.i686.rpm
dlm-kernel-xenU-2.6.9-52.3.i686.rpm
dlm-kernheaders-2.6.9-52.3.i686.rpm
GFS-kernel-2.6.9-75.10.i686.rpm
GFS-kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-75.10.i686.rpm
GFS-kernel-smp-2.6.9-75.10.i686.rpm
GFS-kernel-xenU-2.6.9-75.10.i686.rpm
GFS-kernheaders-2.6.9-75.10.i686.rpm
gnbd-kernel-2.6.9-10.30.i686.rpm
gnbd-kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-10.30.i686.rpm
gnbd-kernel-smp-2.6.9-10.30.i686.rpm
gnbd-kernel-xenU-2.6.9-10.30.i686.rpm
gnbd-kernheaders-2.6.9-10.30.i686.rpm
kernel-module-fuse-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL-2.5.3-1.el4_6.i686.rpm
kernel-module-fuse-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELhugemem-2.5.3-1.el4_6.i686.rpm
kernel-module-fuse-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp-2.5.3-1.el4_6.i686.rpm
kernel-module-fuse-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELxenU-2.5.3-1.el4_6.i686.rpm
kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL-1.1.0-1.SL4.i686.rpm
kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELhugemem-1.1.0-1.SL4.i686.rpm
kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp-1.1.0-1.SL4.i686.rpm
kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELxenU-1.1.0-1.SL4.i686.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL-0.9.3.1-10.sl4.i686.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELhugemem-0.9.3.1-10.sl4.i686.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp-0.9.3.1-10.sl4.i686.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL-0.9.3.1-10.sl4.i686.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELhugemem-0.9.3.1-10.sl4.i686.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp-0.9.3.1-10.sl4.i686.rpm
kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL-1.41-1.SL.i686.rpm
kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELhugemem-1.41-1.SL.i686.rpm
kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp-1.41-1.SL.i686.rpm
kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELxenU-1.41-1.SL.i686.rpm
kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL-1.4.4-46.SL4.i686.rpm
kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELhugemem-1.4.4-46.SL4.i686.rpm
kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp-1.4.4-46.SL4.i686.rpm
kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELxenU-1.4.4-46.SL4.i686.rpm
kernel-module-r1000-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL-2.2-2.SL4x.i686.rpm
kernel-module-r1000-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELhugemem-2.2-2.SL4x.i686.rpm
kernel-module-r1000-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp-2.2-2.SL4x.i686.rpm
kernel-module-r1000-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELxenU-2.2-2.SL4x.i686.rpm

    x86_64:
kernel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
   Dependancies:
cman-kernel-2.6.9-53.6.x86_64.rpm
cman-kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-53.6.x86_64.rpm
cman-kernel-smp-2.6.9-53.6.x86_64.rpm
cman-kernel-xenU-2.6.9-53.6.x86_64.rpm
cman-kernheaders-2.6.9-53.6.x86_64.rpm
cmirror-kernel-2.6.9-38.6.x86_64.rpm
cmirror-kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-38.6.x86_64.rpm
cmirror-kernel-smp-2.6.9-38.6.x86_64.rpm
cmirror-kernel-xenU-2.6.9-38.6.x86_64.rpm
dlm-kernel-2.6.9-52.3.x86_64.rpm
dlm-kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-52.3.x86_64.rpm
dlm-kernel-smp-2.6.9-52.3.x86_64.rpm
dlm-kernel-xenU-2.6.9-52.3.x86_64.rpm
dlm-kernheaders-2.6.9-52.3.x86_64.rpm
GFS-kernel-2.6.9-75.10.x86_64.rpm
GFS-kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-75.10.x86_64.rpm
GFS-kernel-smp-2.6.9-75.10.x86_64.rpm
GFS-kernel-xenU-2.6.9-75.10.x86_64.rpm
GFS-kernheaders-2.6.9-75.10.x86_64.rpm
gnbd-kernel-2.6.9-10.30.x86_64.rpm
gnbd-kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-10.30.x86_64.rpm
gnbd-kernel-smp-2.6.9-10.30.x86_64.rpm
gnbd-kernel-xenU-2.6.9-10.30.x86_64.rpm
gnbd-kernheaders-2.6.9-10.30.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-fuse-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL-2.5.3-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-fuse-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.5.3-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-fuse-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp-2.5.3-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-fuse-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELxenU-2.5.3-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL-1.1.0-1.SL4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.1.0-1.SL4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp-1.1.0-1.SL4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELxenU-1.1.0-1.SL4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL-0.9.3.1-10.sl4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELlargesmp-0.9.3.1-10.sl4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp-0.9.3.1-10.sl4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL-0.9.3.1-10.sl4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELlargesmp-0.9.3.1-10.sl4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp-0.9.3.1-10.sl4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL-1.41-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.41-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp-1.41-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELxenU-1.41-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL-1.4.4-46.SL4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.4.4-46.SL4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp-1.4.4-46.SL4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELxenU-1.4.4-46.SL4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-r1000-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL-2.2-2.SL4x.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-r1000-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.2-2.SL4x.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-r1000-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp-2.2-2.SL4x.x86_64.rpm
kernel-module-r1000-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELxenU-2.2-2.SL4x.x86_64.rpm


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