Synopsis: Important: kernel security and bug fix update Issue date: 2008-01-23 CVE Names: CVE-2007-3104 CVE-2007-5904 CVE-2007-6206 CVE-2007-6416 CVE-2008-0001 These new kernel packages fix the following security issues: A flaw was found in the virtual filesystem (VFS). An unprivileged local user could truncate directories to which they had write permission; this could render the contents of the directory inaccessible. (CVE-2008-0001, Important) A flaw was found in the Xen PAL emulation on Intel 64 platforms. A guest Hardware-assisted virtual machine (HVM) could read the arbitrary physical memory of the host system, which could make information available to unauthorized users. (CVE-2007-6416, Important) A flaw was found in the way core dump files were created. If a local user can get a root-owned process to dump a core file into a directory, which the user has write access to, they could gain read access to that core file, potentially containing sensitive information. (CVE-2007-6206, Moderate) A buffer overflow flaw was found in the CIFS virtual file system. A remote,authenticated user could issue a request that could lead to a denial of service. (CVE-2007-5904, Moderate) A flaw was found in the "sysfs_readdir" function. A local user could create a race condition which would cause a denial of service (kernel oops). (CVE-2007-3104, Moderate) As well, these updated packages fix the following bugs: * running the "strace -f" command caused strace to hang, without displaying information about child processes. * unmounting an unresponsive, interruptable NFS mount, for example, one mounted with the "intr" option, may have caused a system crash. * a bug in the s2io.ko driver prevented VLAN devices from being added. Attempting to add a device to a VLAN, for example, running the "vconfig add [device-name] [vlan-id]" command caused vconfig to fail. * tux used an incorrect open flag bit. This caused problems when building packages in a chroot environment, such as mock, which is used by the koji build system. SL 5.x SRPMS: kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.src.rpm i386: kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i686.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i386.rpm kernel-PAE-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i686.rpm Dependancies: kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5-2.6.3-1.el5_0.i686.rpm kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5PAE-2.6.3-1.el5_0.i686.rpm kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5xen-2.6.3-1.el5_0.i686.rpm kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5-1.2.0-2.el5_0.i686.rpm kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5PAE-1.2.0-2.el5_0.i686.rpm kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5xen-1.2.0-2.el5_0.i686.rpm kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5-0.9.3.3-12.el5_0.i686.rpm kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5PAE-0.9.3.3-12.el5_0.i686.rpm kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5xen-0.9.3.3-12.el5_0.i686.rpm kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5-0.9.3.3-12.el5_0.i686.rpm kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5PAE-0.9.3.3-12.el5_0.i686.rpm kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5xen-0.9.3.3-12.el5_0.i686.rpm kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5-1.41-1.SL.i686.rpm kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5PAE-1.41-1.SL.i686.rpm kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5xen-1.41-1.SL.i686.rpm kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5-1.4.6-58.SL5.i686.rpm kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5PAE-1.4.6-58.SL5.i686.rpm kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5xen-1.4.6-58.SL5.i686.rpm kernel-module-r1000-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5-1.05-1.sl.i686.rpm kernel-module-r1000-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5PAE-1.05-1.sl.i686.rpm kernel-module-r1000-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5xen-1.05-1.sl.i686.rpm x86_64: kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm Dependancies: kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5-2.6.3-1.el5_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5xen-2.6.3-1.el5_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5-2.6.3-1.SL.x86_64.rpm kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5-2.6.3-1SL.x86_64.rpm kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5-1.2.0-2.el5_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5xen-1.2.0-2.el5_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5-0.9.3.3-12.el5_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5xen-0.9.3.3-12.el5_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5-0.9.3.3-12.el5_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5xen-0.9.3.3-12.el5_1.x86_64.rpm kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5-1.41-1.SL.x86_64.rpm kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5xen-1.41-1.SL.x86_64.rpm kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5-1.4.6-58.SL5.x86_64.rpm kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5xen-1.4.6-58.SL5.x86_64.rpm kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5-1.4.6-58.SL5.x86_64.rpm kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5xen-1.4.6-58.SL5.x86_64.rpm kernel-module-r1000-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5-1.05-1.sl.x86_64.rpm kernel-module-r1000-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5xen-1.05-1.sl.x86_64.rpm -Connie Sieh -Troy Dawson