-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-1629 2008-02-13 04:26:20 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : kernel-xen-2.6 Product : Fedora 7 Version : 2.6.21 Release : 7.fc7 URL : http://www.kernel.org/ 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: CVE-2008-0600 fix (bug #432517) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Feb 12 2008 Eduardo Habkost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - CVE-2008-0600 fix (bug #432517) * Mon Nov 19 2007 Eduardo Habkost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Re-add xen-hypervisor-abi provides. It was lost on the spec resync (problem detected on updates-testing) * Mon Nov 12 2007 Eduardo Habkost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Rebase to 2.6.21.7 - Resync with non-xen kernel spec. Enabled -debuginfo packages (bug #245420) * Tue Oct 23 2007 Eduardo Habkost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Add fix to text-mode install under Xen (bug #348931) * Wed Oct 10 2007 Eduardo Habkost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Remove bogus WARN_ON() from synchronize_irq() (bug #293451) * Mon Oct 8 2007 Eduardo Habkost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Add patch to fix BUG_ON() Oops caused by privcmd (bug #323031) * Thu Sep 27 2007 Eduardo Habkost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fix 3w-9xxx to use PCI resources properly and work under Xen (bug #309611) * Wed Sep 26 2007 Eduardo Habkost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Disabled Firewire stack on i686 also. It is not supported by current Xen swiotlb implementation (bug #302471) * Fri Sep 21 2007 Eduardo Habkost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Add fix for bug #294011 (floating point corruption) (changeset 8c24767501ff from Xen 3.1.1) - Fix sleazy-fpu implementation to actually avoid on fpu-intensive programs * Thu Sep 13 2007 Eduardo Habkost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Hypervisor-side of fix for bug #248398: HVM domain hangs during (F-7) install. Backport of fix from xen-unstable: 15239:656b8175f4f2. This replaces xen-vpic-set-vector.patch, that didn't go upstream and didn't have its user-space part added to the xen package. * Wed Sep 12 2007 Eduardo Habkost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Disable CONFIG_HIGHPTE. It is not reliable and causes performance loss under Xen * Thu Aug 30 2007 Eduardo Habkost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Provides: xen-hypervisor-abi = 3.1 (bug #269581) * Tue Aug 14 2007 Eduardo Habkost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Xenoprof: fix DOMAIN_SWITCH_CODE value according to oprofile 0.9.3 (Markus Armbruster) * Fri Aug 10 2007 Eduardo Habkost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Add af_packet.c checksum patches from Herbert Xu, to avoid problems with DHCP server and clients running on the same Xen host * Thu Aug 9 2007 Eduardo Habkost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Add linux-2.6-xen-backwards-time.patch from linux-2.6.18-xen.hg changeset 87bb8705768a. This should fix bug #236307 * Wed Aug 8 2007 Eduardo Habkost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Update xen patch to 3.1.0 * Mon Jul 16 2007 Eduardo Habkost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Make xenblk wait to the disk to be added (bug #248462) - Rebase to 2.6.20.14 * Wed Jul 11 2007 Eduardo Habkost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Remove #ifdef CONFIG_PM from acpi poweroff code (fix bug #241381) * Mon Jun 11 2007 Eduardo Habkost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Added fix to bug #243756: linux-2.6-xen-fix-nosegneg-detection.patch * Thu May 24 2007 Eduardo Habkost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Disabled CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING, as the xen code doesn't support it. See bug #239601 - HV: allow HVM virtual PICs to have their interrupt vector reprogrammed (part of fix for rawhide FV booting on rawhide Xen) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #432517 - Vulnerability to CVE-2008-0600 (vmsplice) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432517 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update kernel-xen-2.6' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce