Linux Today: Linux News On Internet Time.
Search Linux Today
Linux News Sections:  Blog -  Developer -  High Performance -  Infrastructure -  IT Management -  Security -  Storage -
Linux Today Navigation
LT Home
Preferences
Contribute
Link to Us
Search
Linux Jobs

Linux Today
Enterprise Linux Today
Apache Today
JustLinux.com
Linux Planet
PHPBuilder
All Linux Devices
Technology Jobs

JustTechJobs.com

LinuxToday Newsletters
Server Daily
IT Management Daily
Subscribe News
Subscribe PR
Subscribe Security

internet.com
Internet News
Small Business

Advertise
Newsletters
Tech Jobs
E-mail Offers

 






Current Newswire:

Raspberry Pi benchmarked against Beagleboard, low price is long term

20 popular Ubuntu Linux apps you may want to try

A Selection of the Very Best Open Source Tutorials and Tools

Android Ice Cream Sandwich ported to x86 tablets, netbooks and notebooks

SECURITY: Google Chrome 17 Improves Security

How to read a CSV file in Perl?

Red Hat Brings Gluster to Amazon Cloud

New Linux kernel fixes power-saving issues

Using Wii remote with Android Device- Taking Gaming to the Next Level

Commercial Support now available for the open-source NGINX Web server



Applications Management Engineer Sr (NYC)
Next Step Systems
US-NY-New York

Justtechjobs.com Post A Job | Post A Resume
:Marc-Christian Petersen: Linux 2.2.27-rc2
Marc-Christian Petersen: Linux 2.2.27-rc2
Jan 13, 2005, 04 :45 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2816 reads)

(Other stories by Marc-Christian Petersen)

Kernel.org Mirrors

Hi all,

here goes 2nd release candidate of v2.2.27. It contains security fixes including todays discovered SMP pagefault race, amongst others.

2.2.27-rc2

  • CAN-2005-0001: fixed expand_stack() SMP race (Redhat)
  • CAN-2004-0883, CAN-2004-0949: smbfs: fixed client overflow. There are two bugs in the handling of SMB responses that result in remote kernel overflows. Due to the nature of the bugs both seem to be very hard to exploit (in the sense of remote code execution or local privilege escalation) but are trivial remote kernel crashes. (Stefan Esser)
  • rose_rt_ioctl: lack of bounds checking (Coverity)
  • sdla_xfer: lack of bounds checking (Coverity)
  • coda: bounds checking for tainted scalars (Coverity)
  • sendmsg compat wrapper fixes for 64bit compat mode (Olaf Kirch)

2.2.27-rc1

  • CAN-2004-0497: fixed missing DAC check on sys_chown (Thomas Biege)
  • CAN-2004-1016: fixed a buffer overflow vulnerability in the "__scm_send" function which handles the sending of UDP network packets. A wrong validity check of the cmsghdr structure allowed a local attacker to modify kernel memory, thus causing an endless loop (DoS) or possibly even root privilege escalation. (Paul Starzetz)
  • CAN-2004-1333: fixed integer overflow in the vc_resize function allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via a short new screen value, which leads to a buffer overflow. Make sure VC resizing fits in s16. (Georgi Guninski)
  • If the user makes ip_cmsg_send call ip_options_get multiple times, we leak kmalloced IP options data. (Georgi Guninski)
  • fixed moxa serial bound checking issue (Alan Cox)
  • menu cleanups (me)

2.2.27-pre2

  • A more correct fix to last mremap (2) bug (Dan Yefimov/Solar Designer)
  • renamed imho bogus _vsnprintf to vsnprintf (me)
  • fixed 'noexec' behaviour (2.4 backport) from Ulrich Drepper (me)

2.2.27-pre1

  • fixed TCP keepalive bug (Neal Cardwell)
  • fixed tcp seq nr wrapping bug (Ulrik De Bie)
  • added cciss root translation table (Eduard Bloch)
  • VIA KL133/KM133 northbridge: vga console going crazy (Roberto Biancardi)
  • speedup 'make dep' (Benoit Poulot-Cazajous)
  • disabled MCE only on Pentiums by default (2.4 backport) (boot with 'mce' if your MCE works as expected) (Herbert Xu)
  • skb_realloc_headroom() panics when new headroom is smaller than existing headroom
  • invalid nh.raw use after free (Julian Anastasov)
  • fix a local APIC initaliziation ordering bug that triggers on the P4 (Andrea Arcangeli)
  • TSC calibration must be dynamic and not a compile time thing because gettimeofday is dynamic and it depends on the TSCs to be in sync (Andrea Arcangeli)
  • fix deadlock on shutdown in 8139too (Herbert Xu)
  • support for ELF executables which use an a.out format interpreter (dynamic linker) moved into a separate configuration option and disabled by default (Solar Designer)
  • fixed sys_utimes perm check according to sys_utim (Al Viro)
  • show us the saved kernel command line (2.4 backport) (me)
  • some whitespace cleanups, some coding style cleanups (me)
  • fixed some gcc warnings (me)
  • add PCI ID for 82820 NIC to eepro100 network driver (me)
  • move 'Network device support' near 'Networking options' (me)


No talkbacks posted.
  Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page  



Enter your comments below:

* Your Name:

* Your Email Address:

* Subject:

CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address]

* Comments:

Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content.

Fields marked with * are required!

..............................




All times are recorded in UTC.
Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.
Powered by Linux, Apache and PHP