Fedora Core 4 Update: kernel-2.6.14-1.1644 FC4

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Fedora Update Notification

FEDORA-2005-1104

2005-11-28

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Product  : Fedora Core 4

Name  : kernel

Version  : 2.6.14

Release  : 1.1644_FC4

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.

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Update Information:

This update rebases to the latest upstream stable release,

which fixes a number of minor security issues.

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• Sun Nov 27 2005 Dave Jones <davej redhat com> [2.6.14-1.1644_FC4]

- Port a change_page_attr() fix from x86-64 to i386.

• Sat Nov 26 2005 Dave Jones <davej redhat com> [2.6.14-1.1643_FC4]

- Fix infinite loop in rtnetlink.

• Fri Nov 25 2005 Dave Jones <davej redhat com>

- 2.6.14.3

• Wed Nov 23 2005 Dave Jones <davej redhat com> [2.6.14-1.1642_FC4]

- Fix 32bit integer overflow in invalidate_inode_pages2() (local DoS)

• Wed Nov 23 2005 Dave Jones <davej redhat com> [2.6.14-1.1641_FC4]

- Merge patches likely to end up in 2.6.14.3

• Tue Nov 22 2005 Dave Jones <davej redhat com>

- Fix another NFSD badness warning.

- Fix some thinko's in the signed modules code.

• Mon Nov 21 2005 Dave Jones <davej redhat com>

- Remove broken hostname changes in revision field of kernel spec. (#173366)

- Fix some broken locking in NFSD.

• Mon Nov 14 2005 Dave Jones <davej redhat com> [2.6.14-1.1640_FC4]

- Fix memory leak with file leases. (#172691)

• Sat Nov 12 2005 Dave Jones <davej redhat com> [2.6.14-1.1639_FC4]

- Ignore result from acpi_bus_find_driver(device);

Should fix boot hangs on several HP systems (and maybe others).

• Fri Nov 11 2005 Dave Jones <davej redhat com> [2.6.14-1.1638_FC4]

- 2.6.14.2

- Hopefully fix the i8k bug for real this time.

- nf_queue: Fix Oops when no queue handler registered

• Thu Nov 10 2005 Dave Jones <davej redhat com>

- Write protect kernel rodata

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This update can be downloaded from:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/

6fefe1e64084864b7c78e7ed26520b34 SRPMS/kernel-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.src.rpm

b6f05027893594873cdfc92bd6ddfc4a ppc/kernel-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.ppc.rpm

5a0be52b63b672b2756ff2b3e8d4f457 ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.ppc.rpm

7f7ce09114a462cc6470cca2169cefa5 ppc/kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.ppc.rpm

5251acf23ee38b2a78fac484c8656df0 ppc/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.ppc.rpm

21462d249487b6f7fbd5421f4b101534 ppc/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.ppc.rpm

df6958a969664675f2542582d5c19719 ppc/kernel-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.ppc64.rpm

df3aa9878d99ab43a8741e11fc19b906 ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.ppc64.rpm

e735d74c63bb02f94d42c4d4eea5172d x86_64/kernel-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.x86_64.rpm

37d15707427f950567c4542fc6bd9533 x86_64/kernel-devel-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.x86_64.rpm

898874c5b22a61876a3ac89a4b1b053f x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.x86_64.rpm

5b6f61a8e6b6270493838f311705ebce x86_64/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.x86_64.rpm

2c003f1b454dd944cabf400612cfab14 x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.x86_64.rpm

2288af4ba7dab5992ee5ecd4d80ab355 x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.noarch.rpm

f3cd4034a3391c71b31769bcd120fcb6 i386/kernel-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.i586.rpm

83f1bb3ebfedcd4fe3c5f84d2f991716 i386/kernel-devel-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.i586.rpm

8e6bb4293636e658c0401abb30ba7b0e i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.i586.rpm

e2ef34c5c7079d5fce0222dec537a0a6 i386/kernel-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.i686.rpm

888f3dd5f8c8724f1885bbb9d3907543 i386/kernel-devel-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.i686.rpm

565bf72f408975ee2ac75e2c72645ff4 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.i686.rpm

37c1bde49301cf0031108c9d5f713d6d i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.i686.rpm

0b9aa3157acd779a21207c120735f18b i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.i686.rpm

2288af4ba7dab5992ee5ecd4d80ab355 i386/kernel-doc-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.noarch.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

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