Fedora 11 Security Update: kernel-2.6.30.9-90.fc11

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Article Source Fedora 11 Security Updates
October 20, 2009, 5:10 pm

Resolved Bugs
522126 – Notebook pointing devices not detected
524998 – Cypress USB to ATA converters don’t work on 2.6.30 kernels
524756 – ata[n]: SRST failed (errno=-16)
526546 – forcedeth can’t talk to the network in kernel-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.x86_64 on my hardware
492699 – kernel shows ACPI errors (battery?) on Asus eeepc 1002HA
525681 – Wrong temperature reported to the kernel causing Fedora to shutdown
520119 – virtio_net page allocation failure
525743 – Regression between 2.6.29 and 2.6.30 causing qemu.git KVM support to break
524124 – CVE-2009-3290 kernel: KVM: x86: Disallow hypercalls for guest callers in rings > 0
528868 – CVE-2009-3612 kernel: tcf_fill_node() infoleak due to typo in 9ef1d4c7
522331 – CVE-2009-2903 kernel: appletalk: denial of service when handling IP tunnelled over DDP datagrams
527534 – CVE-2009-2908 kernel ecryptfs NULL pointer dereference
528887 – CVE-2009-2909 kernel: ax25 stack overflow
526788 – CVE-2009-2910 kernel: x86_64 32 bit process register leak

Update to kernel 2.6.30.9. Upstream change logs: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.30.9 Also fixes: – Kernel stack randomization bug – NULL dereference in r128 driver – ftrace memory corruption on module unload – boot hanging on some systems – some latency problems caused by scheduler bugs…

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