The GFS and Cluster packages for this kernel are now available.
SL 4.x
i386:
cman-kernel-2.6.9-55.13.el4_7.8.i686.rpm
cman-kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-55.13.el4_7.8.i686.rpm
cman-kernel-smp-2.6.9-55.13.el4_7.8.i686.rpm
cman-kernel-xenU-2.6.9-55.13.el4_7.8.i686.rpm
cman-kernheaders-2.6.9-55.13.el4_7.8.i686.rpm
cmirror-kernel-2.6.9-43.4.el4_7.8.i686.rpm
cmirror-kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-43.4.el4_7.8.i686.rpm
cmirror-kernel-smp-2.6.9-43.4.el4_7.8.i686.rpm
cmirror-kernel-xenU-2.6.9-43.4.el4_7.8.i686.rpm
dlm-kernel-2.6.9-54.11.11.i686.rpm
dlm-kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-54.11.11.i686.rpm
dlm-kernel-smp-2.6.9-54.11.11.i686.rpm
dlm-kernel-xenU-2.6.9-54.11.11.i686.rpm
dlm-kernheaders-2.6.9-54.11.11.i686.rpm
GFS-kernel-2.6.9-80.9.10.i686.rpm
GFS-kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-80.9.10.i686.rpm
GFS-kernel-smp-2.6.9-80.9.10.i686.rpm
GFS-kernel-xenU-2.6.9-80.9.10.i686.rpm
GFS-kernheaders-2.6.9-80.9.10.i686.rpm
gnbd-kernel-2.6.9-10.50.el4_7.8.i686.rpm
gnbd-kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-10.50.el4_7.8.i686.rpm
gnbd-kernel-smp-2.6.9-10.50.el4_7.8.i686.rpm
gnbd-kernel-xenU-2.6.9-10.50.el4_7.8.i686.rpm
gnbd-kernheaders-2.6.9-10.50.el4_7.8.i686.rpm
x86_64:
cman-kernel-2.6.9-55.13.el4_7.8.x86_64.rpm
cman-kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-55.13.el4_7.8.x86_64.rpm
cman-kernel-smp-2.6.9-55.13.el4_7.8.x86_64.rpm
cman-kernel-xenU-2.6.9-55.13.el4_7.8.x86_64.rpm
cman-kernheaders-2.6.9-55.13.el4_7.8.x86_64.rpm
cmirror-kernel-2.6.9-43.4.el4_7.8.x86_64.rpm
cmirror-kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-43.4.el4_7.8.x86_64.rpm
cmirror-kernel-smp-2.6.9-43.4.el4_7.8.x86_64.rpm
cmirror-kernel-xenU-2.6.9-43.4.el4_7.8.x86_64.rpm
dlm-kernel-2.6.9-54.11.el4_7.11.x86_64.rpm
dlm-kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-54.11.el4_7.11.x86_64.rpm
dlm-kernel-smp-2.6.9-54.11.el4_7.11.x86_64.rpm
dlm-kernel-xenU-2.6.9-54.11.el4_7.11.x86_64.rpm
dlm-kernheaders-2.6.9-54.11.el4_7.11.x86_64.rpm
GFS-kernel-2.6.9-80.9.el4_7.10.x86_64.rpm
GFS-kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-80.9.el4_7.10.x86_64.rpm
GFS-kernel-smp-2.6.9-80.9.el4_7.10.x86_64.rpm
GFS-kernel-xenU-2.6.9-80.9.el4_7.10.x86_64.rpm
GFS-kernheaders-2.6.9-80.9.el4_7.10.x86_64.rpm
gnbd-kernel-2.6.9-10.50.el4_7.8.x86_64.rpm
gnbd-kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-10.50.el4_7.8.x86_64.rpm
gnbd-kernel-smp-2.6.9-10.50.el4_7.8.x86_64.rpm
gnbd-kernel-xenU-2.6.9-10.50.el4_7.8.x86_64.rpm
gnbd-kernheaders-2.6.9-10.50.el4_7.8.x86_64.rpm
Thanks
Troy Dawson
Troy J Dawson wrote:
> Synopsis: Important: kernel security and bug fix update
> Issue date: 2009-01-14
> CVE Names: CVE-2008-3275 CVE-2008-4933 CVE-2008-4934
> CVE-2008-5025 CVE-2008-5029 CVE-2008-5300
> CVE-2008-5702
>
> This update addresses the following security issues:
>
> * the sendmsg() function in the Linux kernel did not block during UNIX
> socket garbage collection. This could, potentially, lead to a local denial
> of service. (CVE-2008-5300, Important)
>
> * when fput() was called to close a socket, the __scm_destroy() function in
> the Linux kernel could make indirect recursive calls to itself. This could,
> potentially, lead to a local denial of service. (CVE-2008-5029, Important)
>
> * a deficiency was found in the Linux kernel virtual file system (VFS)
> implementation. This could allow a local, unprivileged user to make a
> series of file creations within deleted directories, possibly causing a
> denial of service. (CVE-2008-3275, Moderate)
>
> * a buffer underflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel IB700 SBC watchdog
> timer driver. This deficiency could lead to a possible information leak. By
> default, the "/dev/watchdog" device is accessible only to the root user.
> (CVE-2008-5702, Low)
>
> * the hfs and hfsplus file systems code failed to properly handle corrupted
> data structures. This could, potentially, lead to a local denial of
> service. (CVE-2008-4933, CVE-2008-5025, Low)
>
> * a flaw was found in the hfsplus file system implementation. This could,
> potentially, lead to a local denial of service when write operations were
> performed. (CVE-2008-4934, Low)
>
> This update also fixes the following bugs:
>
> * when running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6 and 4.7 on some systems running
> Intel® CPUs, the cpuspeed daemon did not run, preventing the CPU speed from
> being changed, such as not being reduced to an idle state when not in use.
>
> * mmap() could be used to gain access to beyond the first megabyte of RAM,
> due to insufficient checks in the Linux kernel code. Checks have been added
> to prevent this.
>
> * attempting to turn keyboard LEDs on and off rapidly on keyboards with
> slow keyboard controllers, may have caused key presses to fail.
>
> * after migrating a hypervisor guest, the MAC address table was not
> updated, causing packet loss and preventing network connections to the
> guest. Now, a gratuitous ARP request is sent after migration. This
> refreshes the ARP caches, minimizing network downtime.
>
> * writing crash dumps with diskdump may have caused a kernel panic on
> Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) systems with certain memory
> configurations.
>
> * on big-endian systems, such as PowerPC, the getsockopt() function
> incorrectly returned 0 depending on the parameters passed to it when the
> time to live (TTL) value equaled 255, possibly causing memory corruption
> and application crashes.
>
> * a problem in the kernel packages provided by the RHSA-2008:0508 advisory
> caused the Linux kernel's built-in memory copy procedure to return the
> wrong error code after recovering from a page fault on AMD64 and Intel 64
> systems. This may have caused other Linux kernel functions to return wrong
> error codes.
>
> * a divide-by-zero bug in the Linux kernel process scheduler, which may
> have caused kernel panics on certain systems, has been resolved.
>
> * the netconsole kernel module caused the Linux kernel to hang when slave
> interfaces of bonded network interfaces were started, resulting in a system
> hang or kernel panic when restarting the network.
>
> * the "/proc/xen/" directory existed even if systems were not running Red
> Hat Virtualization. This may have caused problems for third-party software
> that checks virtualization-ability based on the existence of "/proc/xen/".
> Note: this update will remove the "/proc/xen/" directory on systems not
> running Red Hat Virtualization.
>
> This updated kernel-utils package adds an enhancement in the way of proper
> support for user-space frequency-scaling on multi-core systems.
>
> SL 4.x
>
> SRPMS:
> kernel-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.src.rpm
> kernel-utils-2.4-14.1.117.2.1.src.rpm
> i386:
> kernel-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.i686.rpm
> kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.i686.rpm
> kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.noarch.rpm
> kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.i686.rpm
> kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.i686.rpm
> kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.i686.rpm
> kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.i686.rpm
> kernel-utils-2.4-14.1.117.2.1.i386.rpm
> kernel-xenU-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.i686.rpm
> kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.i686.rpm
> Dependancies:
> kernel-module-fuse-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL-2.7.3-1.SL.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-fuse-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELhugemem-2.7.3-1.SL.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-fuse-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp-2.7.3-1.SL.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-fuse-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELxenU-2.7.3-1.SL.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL-1.1.0-1.SL4.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELhugemem-1.1.0-1.SL4.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp-1.1.0-1.SL4.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELxenU-1.1.0-1.SL4.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL-0.9.4-10.sl4.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELhugemem-0.9.4-10.sl4.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp-0.9.4-10.sl4.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL-0.9.4-10.sl4.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELhugemem-0.9.4-10.sl4.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp-0.9.4-10.sl4.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL-1.41-1.SL.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELhugemem-1.41-1.SL.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp-1.41-1.SL.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELxenU-1.41-1.SL.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL-1.4.7-68.SL4.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELhugemem-1.4.7-68.SL4.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp-1.4.7-68.SL4.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELxenU-1.4.7-68.SL4.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-r1000-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL-2.2-2.SL4x.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-r1000-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELhugemem-2.2-2.SL4x.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-r1000-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp-2.2-2.SL4x.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-r1000-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELxenU-2.2-2.SL4x.i686.rpm
> kernel-module-xfs-2.6.9-78.0.1.EL-0.4-1.sl4.i386.rpm
>
> x86_64:
> kernel-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.noarch.rpm
> kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-utils-2.4-14.1.117.2.1.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-xenU-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.x86_64.rpm
> Dependancies:
> kernel-module-fuse-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL-2.7.3-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-fuse-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELlargesmp-2.7.3-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-fuse-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp-2.7.3-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-fuse-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELxenU-2.7.3-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL-1.1.0-1.SL4.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELlargesmp-1.1.0-1.SL4.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp-1.1.0-1.SL4.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELxenU-1.1.0-1.SL4.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL-0.9.4-10.sl4.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELlargesmp-0.9.4-10.sl4.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp-0.9.4-10.sl4.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL-0.9.4-10.sl4.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELlargesmp-0.9.4-10.sl4.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp-0.9.4-10.sl4.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL-1.41-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELlargesmp-1.41-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp-1.41-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELxenU-1.41-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL-1.4.7-68.SL4.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELlargesmp-1.4.7-68.SL4.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp-1.4.7-68.SL4.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELxenU-1.4.7-68.SL4.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-r1000-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL-2.2-2.SL4x.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-r1000-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELlargesmp-2.2-2.SL4x.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-r1000-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp-2.2-2.SL4x.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-module-r1000-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELxenU-2.2-2.SL4x.x86_64.rpm
>
> -Connie Sieh
> -Troy Dawson
>
>
>
>
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