Security update for Linux Kernel (kernel-source)
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(Last modified: 17MAY2002)
solutions Security update for Linux Kernel (kernel-source) SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (7f8dcc0d15c0436d511fec1b9dc4666d)
SuSE Linux Connectivity Server
Package: kernel-source
Release: 20020517
Obsoletes: none
- Security fixes for netfilter code and SYN ACK storm
- Foster (full Hyperthreading) support
- Better support for huge memory machines (>1 GB RAM)
- Lots of USB and IDE fixes
- Lots of driver updates (esp. QLogic QLA2x00, Adaptec aic7xxx, IBM ServeRAID)
- Some additional drivers (eg for Broadcom Gigabit NICs)
- Fix endless loop for big number of running processes (>32000)
- Fixes required by LSB (Linux Standard Base); mainly error handling
- MXT support (hardware memory compression by IBM)
- Enhanced (more detailed) I/O disk statistics
rpm -Uhv kernel-source.rpm
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