kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0101

The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system.

These new kernel packages contain fixes for the security issues
described below:

• a flaw in network IGMP processing that a allowed a remote user on the
  local network to cause a denial of service (disabling of multicast reports)
  if the system is running multicast applications (CVE-2002-2185, moderate)

• a flaw which allowed a local user to write to firmware on read-only
  opened /dev/cdrom devices (CVE-2004-1190, moderate)

• a flaw in gzip/zlib handling internal to the kernel that may allow a
  local user to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2005-2458, low)

• a flaw in procfs handling during unloading of modules that allowed a
  local user to cause a denial of service or potentially gain privileges
  (CVE-2005-2709, moderate)

• a flaw in the SCSI procfs interface that allowed a local user to cause a
  denial of service (crash) (CVE-2005-2800, moderate)

• a flaw in 32-bit-compat handling of the TIOCGDEV ioctl that allowed
  a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2005-3044, important)

• a race condition when threads share memory mapping that allowed local
  users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) (CVE-2005-3106, important)

• a flaw when trying to mount a non-hfsplus filesystem using hfsplus that
  allowed local users to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2005-3109,
  moderate)

• a minor info leak with the get_thread_area() syscall that allowed
  a local user to view uninitialized kernel stack data (CVE-2005-3276, low)

• a flaw in mq_open system call that allowed a local user to cause a denial
  of service (crash) (CVE-2005-3356, important)

• a flaw in set_mempolicy that allowed a local user on some 64-bit
  architectures to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2005-3358, important)

• a flaw in the auto-reap of child processes that allowed a local user to
  cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2005-3784, important)

• a flaw in the IPv6 flowlabel code that allowed a local user to cause a
  denial of service (crash) (CVE-2005-3806, important)

• a flaw in network ICMP processing that allowed a local user to cause
  a denial of service (memory exhaustion) (CVE-2005-3848, important)

• a flaw in file lease time-out handling that allowed a local user to cause
  a denial of service (log file overflow) (CVE-2005-3857, moderate)

• a flaw in network IPv6 xfrm handling that allowed a local user to
  cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) (CVE-2005-3858, important)

• a flaw in procfs handling that allowed a local user to read kernel memory
  (CVE-2005-4605, important)

All Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 users are advised to upgrade their kernels
to the packages associated with their machine architectures and
configurations as listed in this erratum.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-January/074742.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-January/074743.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-January/074744.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-January/074745.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-January/074746.html

Affected packages:
kernel
kernel-devel
kernel-doc
kernel-hugemem
kernel-hugemem-devel
kernel-smp
kernel-smp-devel

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006:0101