Security update for Linux kernel
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(Last modified: 29JUL2005)
solutions Security update for Linux kernel SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (fb8b450f9b2a10557476ea65ef2cce6e)
kernel-source
kernel-syms
Product(s): SUSE CORE 9 for IBM S/390 31bit
Patch: patch-10382
Release: 20050729
Obsoletes: d7a0776511ad2218474ecd86e4892359
8a7a62bd2689c5729cb258075912cd07
x86_64:
- by causing an overflow in the 32bit execve function users could crash the kernel or even execute code (#90499, CAN-2005-1768).
- by causing an overflow in the 32bit execve function users could crash the kernel or even execute code (#90499, CAN-2005-1768).
- deadlock in reiserfs
- NFS problems with EMC servers (#96193)
- hang on deleting vlan interfaces (#83493)
- busy inodes after umount of autofs4 (#91112)
- JBD race condition during umount (#95665)
- output of /proc/scsi/scsi (#80228)
- ignore timer overrides on SMP Nvidia boards (#94194)
- crash on dual core, single processor Opterons (#96485)
- initialization of the ACPI Processor P-States Driver (#95059)
- initialization of the ACPI Processor P-States Driver (#95059)
- kernel parameter noexec=on did't work (#96528)
- include IBM codedrop 2005-07-20
rpm -Fvh kernel-s390.rpm kernel-syms.rpm
zipl
Finally, reboot the system with
shutdown -r now
to load the new kernel (replace "now" with the appropriate amount of time to allow local users to cleanly log out, for example "+5" for five minutes.)
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