Technical Description

Fedora has released updated packages to address a vulnerability identified in Kernel. This flaw could be exploited by local attackers to cause a denial of service or obtain elevated privileges. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2006-2699

Affected Products

Fedora Core 5
Fedora Core 4

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/
b38262c22f4d45c00f071a94bdb6f8c7cc8902c7 SRPMS/kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.src.rpm
b38262c22f4d45c00f071a94bdb6f8c7cc8902c7 noarch/kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.src.rpm
ae698f795c7028cdacebcba32b17e3cb78f8bd51 ppc/kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.ppc.rpm
3099877391a7b4373834b9e0f08dcbb1eaf1f8d7 ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.ppc.rpm
51667ce89e7552177bc116e1865178ded1f87d69 ppc/kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.ppc.rpm
bc2b7bd5d1fe8222dbeca13adbf7f3db61e73a85 ppc/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.ppc.rpm
f11130d6afe995f9b914498e2b9aadc2a0f2c7aa ppc/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.ppc.rpm
9e9c90f3d0a645ce1c8ba6594d50bbc7dcd27711 ppc/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.noarch.rpm
9ac7cc0f348d3ed173d34ed96a3c7ca5998ecca8 x86_64/kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.x86_64.rpm
62b0bf3090e9580fc47259f296b69d9da6fd07ed x86_64/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.x86_64.rpm
547a17f0478d6621ebe0068fe80e8d15d344b294 x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.x86_64.rpm
96790614ed5660bce238372e68e5240c332c9f45 x86_64/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.x86_64.rpm
0356dd529353a2b73dad34310d83d366ec584211 x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.x86_64.rpm
9e9c90f3d0a645ce1c8ba6594d50bbc7dcd27711 x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.noarch.rpm
e9cd4a89a0f8e4863321010158782592f87b3e22 i386/kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i586.rpm
bbd9366f7416101e8cf7787e5206a050d286fbea i386/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i586.rpm
51f9dfde3d90a90333ca0f0572d4bdd5e0566cd1 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i586.rpm
3d7b9d935b38a7991c8604d7871a362583226410 i386/kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i686.rpm
dbab8020601bc572b12cf659ec3bc499dd44bcae i386/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i686.rpm
630c2ce6358e5dafb62b508719fc2c8c3de8ef13 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i686.rpm
19eaf99d970ed76f9a5b4130eefdf2dd66de5e01 i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i686.rpm
9ff3c5bcb255ec8b04b8f90f45f42b1561e13a0c i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.i686.rpm
9e9c90f3d0a645ce1c8ba6594d50bbc7dcd27711 i386/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.noarch.rpm
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/
5e50afb6531e1a1295b947f7a8d394a4bc426abb SRPMS/kernel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.src.rpm
5e50afb6531e1a1295b947f7a8d394a4bc426abb noarch/kernel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.src.rpm
0f29c3e8c1e22220c96e362cdafb9fee4f69275b ppc/kernel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.ppc.rpm
d7ba57c514263b92a373413ac5dc00296f95df81 ppc/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.ppc.rpm
b878e7ae1839e45e3fa4ef86ec47f3eb837a5fe3 ppc/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.ppc.rpm
814157ffd65bd9e97f3e4835b7b476af5be23154 ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.ppc.rpm
a95365dfd8264ddc8a5764a8d09a586c3467992d ppc/kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.ppc.rpm
10b55e67d8e7cb682227893d9ddc7d2850996bfa ppc/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.noarch.rpm
5bf2e68c29190ddb42974b8863c3f58a7afae6c2 x86_64/kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.x86_64.rpm
db73597bf86b2463d647951133a33d7594ceed54 x86_64/kernel-xen-devel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.x86_64.rpm
d15426137515f24592604e504ccb0999c9b49976 x86_64/kernel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.x86_64.rpm
86187e62a53e4d202ff678b1b28014ff56e38fdf x86_64/kernel-xen-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.x86_64.rpm
5feb148711d41394d24189592c42f9ac8dc64c5b x86_64/kernel-xen0-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.x86_64.rpm
d6ab10b57ed97da4bae68eafc4dc58fe5bc984c1 x86_64/kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.x86_64.rpm
65af15bae6e7c7c38557d80811159cf83805a069 x86_64/kernel-kdump-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.x86_64.rpm
041a72bb77bdeec0e5c64d504363cfef9e61b055 x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.x86_64.rpm
841cba785d93341c271ddad22a533b9f67222d03 x86_64/kernel-xen0-devel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.x86_64.rpm
608598590ca2e7e562efda37403cd92b84254d3a x86_64/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.x86_64.rpm
ae698953479fa573557701149fc4e8cd11f3c7bc x86_64/kernel-xenU-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.x86_64.rpm
10b55e67d8e7cb682227893d9ddc7d2850996bfa x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.noarch.rpm
4e02552dc7a9704f3979453efabcca1b96e55f93 i386/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.i586.rpm
a8f05cc3a9dc29e78b6afc5710f5af766044a0de i386/kernel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.i586.rpm
4783230a0458522a5a64cf14cca05e7499ed6166 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.i586.rpm
494fbbfadab288973cc44882fa0774a638f7bba8 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.i686.rpm
99ce4c9d3b4c5e9ada1096cb2b541a82ee72aaf1 i386/kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.i686.rpm
d04950ad9f9c3aa984774432e7e4d5f912dbfc8b i386/kernel-xen-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.i686.rpm
be6a5b8f03945f39be1990cef72ceff88da39e48 i386/kernel-xen0-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.i686.rpm
a1bc6bb7a951b6c44652cc00ce67dded48a63efc i386/kernel-xenU-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.i686.rpm
de039c97a21e8bafe26ec01faeafa7944a4a1816 i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.i686.rpm
cb5280fd71b64f2d6bb32b62ef348db3523c11d6 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.i686.rpm
fc4beebb0fc08bb105871142ac6e7feb666227a5 i386/kernel-kdump-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.i686.rpm
f094c8c8d3b0d8256e3447f3535c1d3761221c74 i386/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.i686.rpm
4c8239648b9adc43d9fc926f245a6c9d1d7fe1f2 i386/kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.i686.rpm
5a5c9e42940a16cc9a787079114f50acdd2b948e i386/kernel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.i686.rpm
3bf2af1e6934dfc75757ba4f3b5b356b3bd15024 i386/kernel-xen-devel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.i686.rpm
97cf9a20903b5c0f6b0805a0558ae3028efc4000 i386/kernel-xen0-devel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.i686.rpm
10b55e67d8e7cb682227893d9ddc7d2850996bfa i386/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.noarch.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2820
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2006-July/msg00049.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2006-July/msg00050.html

ChangeLog

2006-07-15 : Initial release

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