[CentOS-announce] CESA-2013:X002 Important Xen4CentOS kernel Update

Wed Jul 17 23:52:41 UTC 2013
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2013:X002 Important (Xen4CentOS)

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename )

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X86_64
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kernel-3.4.53-8.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm:
a9dcd1ef0417ed31aad7642b1f5a028e8ad69a11382640b4442059ba1d9ccc23

kernel-devel-3.4.53-8.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm:
5f82372fd2fe67a76bbae10a8873297854f918289c35ca0539ab3547d2e6ffb7

kernel-doc-3.4.53-8.el6.centos.alt.noarch.rpm:
e8af75a7905ed0dfca3c6ea596bf8adf47984150f4fcddea48a6d6ca7b8bf608

kernel-firmware-3.4.53-8.el6.centos.alt.noarch.rpm
823e8cee7330124079f7e2301ab3c714afa443ef7f795b993a0f60c327edcb55

kernel-headers-3.4.53-8.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm:
da800e86fb019d5b8706fc6c33fc563d21670dc6e17c3ece6a969c26e5707136

perf-3.4.53-8.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm:
480a52e5b909d9415ab033dbe875330da49ddfaff80ef451e26aa628a2b62d2b

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Source:
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kernel-3.4.53-8.el6.centos.alt.src.rpm:
2f3156838cca58c7157bb7510bea186c5a0ef8a9a84aa232e62aeefe851988a1

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Kernel Changelog info from the SPEC file:

* Wed Jul 17 2013 Johnny Hughes &lt;johnny at centos.org&gt; 3.4.53-8
- upgraded to upstream version 3.4.53

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The following Secuirty issues have been addressed in this kernel:

CVE-2013-2851 (Medium)
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=3D3DCVE-2013-2851

CVE-2013-1059 (Important)
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=3D3DCVE-2013-1059

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The following kernel.org changelog entries are applicable since the last
kernel update:

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.51

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.52

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.53

--
Johnny Hughes
CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ }
irc: hughesjr, #centos at irc.freenode.net


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