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Fedora 2003-026 Security Check
high Log Correlation Engine Plugin ID 801543
Synopsis
The remote host is missing a security update.Description
"The kernel shipped with Fedora Core 1 was vulnerable to a bug in theerror return on a concurrent fork() with threaded exit() which could
be exploited by a user level program to crash the kernel.
In addition to this bug fix, the changelog below details various other
non security fixes that have been added.
- Mon Dec 01 2003 Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
- sys_tgkill wasn't enabled on IA32.
- Sun Nov 30 2003 Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
- Process scheduler fix. When doing sync wakeups we must
not skip the notification of other cpus if the task is
not on this runqueue.
- Wed Nov 26 2003 Justin M. Forbes 64bit_fedora at
comcast.net
- Merge required ia32 syscalls for AMD64
- [f]truncate64 for 32bit code fix
- Mon Nov 24 2003 Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
- Fix power-off on shutdown with ACPI.
- Add missing part of recent cmpci fix
- Drop CONFIG_NR_CPUS patch which was problematic.
- Fold futex-fix into main futex patch.
- Fix TG3 tqueue initialisation.
- Various NPTL fixes.
- Fri Nov 14 2003 Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
- Drop netfilter change which proved to be bad upstream.
- Thu Nov 13 2003 Justin M. Forbes 64bit_fedora at
comcast.net
- Fix NForce3 DMA and ATA133 on AMD64
- Wed Nov 12 2003 Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
- Fix syscall definitions on AMD64
- Tue Nov 11 2003 Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
- Fix Intel 440GX Interrupt routing.
- Fix waitqueue leak in cmpci driver.
- Mon Nov 10 2003 Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
- Kill noisy warnings in the DRM modules.
- Merge munged upstream x86-64.org patch for various
AMD64 fixes.
- Mon Nov 03 2003 Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
- Further cleanups related to AMD64 build.
- Fri Oct 31 2003 Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
- Make AMD64 build."