[SECURITY] Fedora Core 4 Test Update: kernel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sun Jul 2 15:32:57 UTC 2006


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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-769
2006-07-02
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Product     : Fedora Core 4
Name        : kernel
Version     : 2.6.17
Release     : 1.2141_FC4
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.

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Update Information:

An update to the latest upstream stable release (2.6.17.3),
which fixes a security issue with SCTP.

Further details:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17.3
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17.2

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* Fri Jun 30 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.17-1.2141_FC4]
- 2.6.17.3
* Fri Jun 30 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.17-1.2140_FC4]
- 2.6.17.2
- Fix up the alsa list_add bug.
* Mon Jun 26 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Fix up various stupidities incurred by the last big rebase.
  - Reenable SMP x86-64 builds.
  - Reenable SMBFS.
- Enable PCI fake hotplug driver.
- Enable gameport/joystick on i586 builds. (#196581)
* Sat Jun 24 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Enable profiling for 586 kernels.

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This update can be downloaded from:
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/4/

3fb72720ef6c0e1a2639f5ef8279b332d62e6d4d  SRPMS/kernel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.src.rpm
3fb72720ef6c0e1a2639f5ef8279b332d62e6d4d  noarch/kernel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.src.rpm
9ad94710fba4e976ac0423172fe07a01de11334c  ppc/kernel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.ppc.rpm
73b154146ad995be13b591dee7ca25dfae6c1205  ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.ppc.rpm
b9f4635d0586f6f6dd5e8c004036b18961af0185  ppc/kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.ppc.rpm
cf00a58a87557b958127da4af90109d463ca7f6c  ppc/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.ppc.rpm
50081a40f220f8c7589ce3fa2a06e866dd22f766  ppc/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.ppc.rpm
6a9be36db023954ef88e0455d459615ab6b7cd5a  ppc/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.noarch.rpm
14894d1688adcef85e702dfd27eaa56c15e95e14  x86_64/kernel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.x86_64.rpm
e61e72209f504fff38c68b907171d7fe70a0326d  x86_64/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.x86_64.rpm
8c7a8bd66044c8277b25d883bf92e0512f4d21db  x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.x86_64.rpm
53631464800efeb56658ea00add67b38eb9afe49  x86_64/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.x86_64.rpm
7fcc61ae3f44df6582a1524686755c6b83fb7383  x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.x86_64.rpm
6a9be36db023954ef88e0455d459615ab6b7cd5a  x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.noarch.rpm
c869a02c96d152a1083f60bbaf5c651ba78f5237  i386/kernel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.i586.rpm
6619c72c91ba9b7d55d3c6a7d385109be6c66200  i386/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.i586.rpm
153fdefc4e67ae691993d235735942dcb7810203  i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.i586.rpm
378c10d1d8dc9e340bcf7b4833b0960de5c303a7  i386/kernel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.i686.rpm
d4dcfd69ff9a4fcfa59784a8aeb6bbd0570ee453  i386/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.i686.rpm
ad9bfc01b919223b686a002fc739b43bf11b6ac6  i386/kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.i686.rpm
1001e09e4e98ace61a3aa7f6a79abb11cab0abd5  i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.i686.rpm
555ed88d7b3e6550d2053d1f0718b31df6c96acc  i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.i686.rpm
6a9be36db023954ef88e0455d459615ab6b7cd5a  i386/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.noarch.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program.  Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line.  For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.
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