[CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:169 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 Kernel - Security Update

[Karanbir Singh]

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0169

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0169.html


The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename )

x86_64:
48baeb09320670e11512e214b061b1b4 kernel-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5.x86_64.rpm

a36b926288ebe4122042cbda5ec4ecb3 kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5.x86_64.rpm

892e3c6a2a025403264d8dd6d68552f4 kernel-doc-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5.noarch.rpm

c29cfe576eb2cb1e2372c025a441ff4a kernel-headers-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5.x86_64.rpm

2e02d7d015332ce7948d74532b43c60b kernel-xen-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5.x86_64.rpm

29ef5046d06de8db2826c5dd8d8abedd 
Kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5.x86_64.rpm

src:

e573a6439466115ab78dac8731a1a449  kernel-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5.src.rpm


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Changelog since previous release of the kernel package:

* Mon Apr 30 2007 Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org>
- Roll in CentOS Changes

* Mon Apr 16 2007 Don Howard <dhoward at redhat.com> [2.6.18-8.1.3.el5]
- [s390] page_mkclean causes data corruption on s390 (Jan Glauber ) [236605]

* Wed Mar 28 2007 Don Howard <dhoward at redhat.com> [2.6.18-8.1.2.el5]
- [utrace] exploit and unkillable cpu fixes (Roland McGrath ) [228816] 
(CVE-2007-0771)
- [net] IPV6 security holes in ipv6_sockglue.c - 2 (David S. Miller ) 
[232257] {CVE-2007-1000}
- [net] IPV6 security holes in ipv6_sockglue.c (David S. Miller ) 
[232255] {CVE-2007-1388}
- [audit] GFP_KERNEL allocations in non-blocking context fix (Alexander 
Viro ) [233157]

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Karanbir Singh
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