System Environment/Kernel

kernel: The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)

Name:kernel Vendor:Scientific Linux
Version:2.4.21 License:GPLv2
Release:53.EL URL:
Summary
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.

Arch: x86_64

Download:kernel-2.4.21-53.EL.x86_64.rpm
Build Date:Mon Dec 3 12:18:38 2007
Packager:
Size:23.68 MiB

Arch: ia32e

Download:kernel-2.4.21-53.EL.ia32e.rpm
Build Date:Mon Dec 3 12:18:38 2007
Packager:
Size:24.33 MiB

Changelog

* Tue Nov 13 18:00:00 2007 Don Howard <dhoward{%}redhat{*}com> kernel-2.4.21-53.EL
- Fix ipv4 treason uncloaked message (Anton Arapov) [249237]
- Fix ipv4 fib-sem-out-of-bounds checking (Don Howard) [250429] {CVE-2007-2172}
- Reset current->pdeath_signal on SUID binary execution (Peter Zijlstra) [251117] {CVE-2007-3848}
- Fix local DoS with corrupted elf on ia64 (Don Howard) [289171] {CVE-2006-4538}
- prevent stack from growing into hugepages region (Don Howard) [294951] {CVE-2007-3739}
- Fix missing ioctl permission checks in aacraid (Don Howard) [298331] {CVE-2007-4308}
* Mon Sep 24 19:00:00 2007 Don Howard <dhoward{%}redhat{*}com> kernel-2.4.21-52.EL
- Validate all 64bits of ptrace information. (Don Howard)
* Tue Jul 24 19:00:00 2007 Jerome Marchand <jmarchan{%}redhat{*}com> kernel-2.4.21-51.EL
- properly initialized e1000 ESB2 NIC RX unit (Andy Gospodarek)
- fix e1000: ESB2 register value causes an rlogin problem (Vince Worthington)
- fix bluetooth setsockopt() information leaks (Don Howard)
- fix overflow in CAPI subsystem (Don Howard)

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