Fedora Linux Advisory: kernel

Fedora Security Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-026
2003-12-02

Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of
your Red Hat Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic
functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process
allocation, device input and output, etc.

The kernel shipped with Fedora Core 1 was vulnerable to a bug in
the error return on a concurrent fork() with threaded exit() which
could be exploited by a user level program to crash the kernel.

In addition to this bug fix, the changelog below details various
other non security fixes that have been added.

• Mon Dec 01 2003 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
  • sys_tgkill wasn’t enabled on IA32.
• Sun Nov 30 2003 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
  • Process scheduler fix.
    When doing sync wakeups we must not skip the notification of other
    cpus if the task is not on this runqueue.
• Wed Nov 26 2003 Justin M. Forbes <64bit_fedora@comcast.net>
  • Merge required ia32 syscalls for AMD64
  • [f]truncate64 for 32bit code fix
• Mon Nov 24 2003 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
  • Fix power-off on shutdown with ACPI.
  • Add missing part of recent cmpci fix
  • Drop CONFIG_NR_CPUS patch which was problematic.
  • Fold futex-fix into main futex patch.
  • Fix TG3 tqueue initialisation.
  • Various NPTL fixes.
• Fri Nov 14 2003 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
  • Drop netfilter change which proved to be bad upstream.
• Thu Nov 13 2003 Justin M. Forbes <64bit_fedora@comcast.net>
  • Fix NForce3 DMA and ATA133 on AMD64
• Wed Nov 12 2003 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
  • Fix syscall definitions on AMD64
• Tue Nov 11 2003 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
  • Fix Intel 440GX Interrupt routing.
  • Fix waitqueue leak in cmpci driver.
• Mon Nov 10 2003 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
  • Kill noisy warnings in the DRM modules.
  • Merge munged upstream x86-64.org patch for various AMD64
    fixes.
• Mon Nov 03 2003 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
  • Further cleanups related to AMD64 build.
• Fri Oct 31 2003 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
  • Make AMD64 build.

This update can be downloaded from:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/

b2ca2e65c14ba3a32bbae6b11e368033
SRPMS/kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.src.rpm
30c673e9bd3470d2323fad69ba064a59
i386/kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i386.rpm
ea3ca9fce1003aa1c03396501fe8e8e4
i386/kernel-doc-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i386.rpm
90bbab66acb77dbfe6e2ae91fca5f4c8
i386/kernel-BOOT-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i386.rpm
a9ebdfdfd8d19a72decf1b8d5549996b
i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i386.rpm
d088887cfc2894539051ec7708ef7c9e
i386/kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i586.rpm
43edf191d8dd0713964ee922e85179a4
i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i586.rpm
ee7850054d3f2b3f72a7d262a398ad87
i386/kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i686.rpm
a023b71cda6252a168c69a05e894e988
i386/kernel-smp-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i686.rpm
7c23798f7d4d3852cf395a23169e99df
i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i686.rpm
a81da54e2c360f336e35135b5b3fedb9
i386/kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.athlon.rpm
230fedc801524652681a23cfd6aad8a4
i386/kernel-smp-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.athlon.rpm
7f461087fa103bef89c14057413e0c1d
i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.athlon.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the ‘up2date’ command.