[Centos] CentOS-3 errata - updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

[John Newbigin]

These packages are available here:
http://mirror.caosity.org/centos-3/3.3/updates/i386/RPMS/

But should they also be here:
http://mirror.caosity.org/centos-3/3.1/updates/i386/RPMS/

Also, does anyone know where this link came from:
http://mirror.caosity.org/centos-3/2.0/

I think that is a poor idea.  If it has a good reason for existing, then 
the version should be 2 or 2.1

John.

Lance Davis wrote:

> A new kernel is available for CentOS-3
> 
> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-549.html refers
> 
> Updated files are :-
> 
> updates/i386/RPMS/
> kernel-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.athlon.rpm
> kernel-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
> kernel-BOOT-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.i386.rpm
> kernel-doc-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.i386.rpm
> kernel-hugemem-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
> kernel-hugemem-unsupported-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
> kernel-smp-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.athlon.rpm
> kernel-smp-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
> kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.athlon.rpm
> kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
> kernel-source-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.i386.rpm
> kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.athlon.rpm
> kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
> 
> updates/i386/SRPMS/
> kernel-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.src.rpm
> 
> in addition I have built an i586 kernel that is now in addons :-
> 
> addons/i386/RPMS/
> kernel-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.i586.rpm
> kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.i586.rpm
> 
> These kernel packages no longer have the .c0 release appendage, this is
> in order for them to be compatible with 3rd party kernel modules
> released for rhel that look for an exact match on kernel release build.
> The spec file is still changed to remove reference to Red Hat but the
> release level is left unchanged.
> 
> This is just one more little step towards our aim of full compatibility
> ...
> 
> To update to this new kernel version run
> 
> yum update 
> 
> (assuming you havent modified the yum configuration to not update
> kernels)
> 
> Then you will need to reboot the machine to use the new kernel.
> 
> Lance
> 
> 
> 
> 


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John Newbigin
Computer Systems Officer
Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
http://www.it.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin