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oraclelinuxOracleELSA-2008-0508
HistoryJun 26, 2008 - 12:00 a.m.

kernel security and bug fix update

2008-06-2600:00:00
Oracle
linux.oracle.com
49

EPSS

0.076

Percentile

94.2%

[2.6.9-67.0.20.0.1.EL]

  • fix skb alignment that was causing sendto() to fail with EFAULT (Olaf Kirch) [orabug 6845794]
  • fix entropy flag in bnx2 driver to generate entropy pool (John Sobecki) [orabug 5931647]
  • fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc (Zach Brown) [orabug 5486128]
  • fix per_cpu() api bug_on with rds (Zach Brown) [orabug 5760648]
  • remove patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread [orabug 6125546]
  • allow more than 4GB hugepage for single user (Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 6002738]
  • netrx/netpoll race avoidance (Tina Yang) [orabug 6143381]
  • fix pv guest oops on live migration (Chuck Anderson) [orabugz 4118]
    [2.6.9-67.0.20]
    -x8664: copy_user doesn’t zero tail bytes on page fault (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [451273 451274]
    [2.6.9-67.0.19]
    -[revert] Add HP DL580 G5 to bfsort whitelist (Tony Camuso) [437976 429727]
    [2.6.9-67.0.18]
    -sys_times: Fix system unresponsiveness during many concurrent invocation of sys_times (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [449101 435280]
    -Add HP DL580 G5 to bfsort whitelist (Tony Camuso) [437976 429727]
    -ptrace: fix ptrace_attach and ptrace_detach race (Jerome Marchand) [449361 311931]
    -[revert] neofb: avoid overwriting fb_info fields (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [430251]
    -[revert] buffer overflow in moxa driver (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [423131] {CVE-2005-0504}
    [2.6.9-67.0.17]
    -x8664: copy_user leaks uninitialized data on page fault (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [433942 433943] {CVE-2008-0598}
    -fix possible buffer overflow in ASN.1 parsing routine (Anton Arapov ) [444462 444463] {CVE-2008-1673}
    [2.6.9-67.0.16]
    -Kernel does not clear direction flag for signal handlers (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [437314 437315] {CVE-2008-1367}