Fedora Core Advisory: kernel

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 1, 2004

Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-202
2004-06-30


Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : kernel
Version : 2.6.6
Release : 1.435.2.1
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.


Update Information:

This security update fixes the remote DoS possibility identified
and fixed by Adam Osuchowski and Tomasz Dubinski in the netfilter
code of the 2.6 kernel. Note that this remote DoS can only be
triggered when using the rarely used “-p tcp –tcp-option” options
in the netfilter firewall subsystem. Fedora Core 2 systems are not
vulnerable unless the administrator manually configured this rarely
used option.

For more information see

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/367615/2004-06-27/2004-07-03/0


  • Thu Jul 01 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
    add patch to fix the ipstables DoS

This update can be downloaded from:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/

7da0393d672f991b382f7ef2138ae095
SRPMS/kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.1.src.rpm
b4ce3f92d9528c3a66ddfef9e7ec6c2a
x86_64/kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.1.x86_64.rpm
eb529813525e2d69bbf2a02fe2d3e6c3
x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.6-1.435.2.1.x86_64.rpm
08912697eed782dc25ef77d6f6f5533a
x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.6-1.435.2.1.x86_64.rpm
a913341d990108ec18280c4807e486f5
x86_64/kernel-sourcecode-2.6.6-1.435.2.1.noarch.rpm
4be412b20965720540172c874ec941bd
x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.6-1.435.2.1.noarch.rpm
aabf6baa884e7030fba4732dd9fffa0c
i386/kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.1.i586.rpm
2fec496992d7b14da8cbe884b4b67236
i386/kernel-smp-2.6.6-1.435.2.1.i586.rpm
f8f4e2e53f88934bcad82d9a3459b773
i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.6-1.435.2.1.i586.rpm
b001aaab73f1cebbbda9ead164a68a1d
i386/kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.1.i686.rpm
f77451335cc000a2e0268028d188ca61
i386/kernel-smp-2.6.6-1.435.2.1.i686.rpm
ab8370ea8f03e3bbe3381001dd552c80
i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.6-1.435.2.1.i686.rpm
a913341d990108ec18280c4807e486f5
i386/kernel-sourcecode-2.6.6-1.435.2.1.noarch.rpm
4be412b20965720540172c874ec941bd
i386/kernel-doc-2.6.6-1.435.2.1.noarch.rpm

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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