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Chapter 1. Package Updates
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This update addresses the following security issues:
• a memory leak in keyctl handling. A local user could use this flaw to deplete kernel memory,
eventually leading to a denial of service. (
CVE-2009-0031
865
, Important)
• a buffer overflow in the Linux kernel Partial Reliable Stream Control Transmission Protocol (PR-
SCTP) implementation. This could, potentially, lead to a denial of service if a Forward-TSN chunk is
received with a large stream ID. (
CVE-2009-0065
866
, Important)
• a flaw when handling heavy network traffic on an SMP system with many cores. An attacker who
could send a large amount of network traffic could create a denial of service. (
CVE-2008-5713
867
,
Important)
• the code for the HFS and HFS Plus (HFS+) file systems failed to properly handle corrupted
data structures. This could, potentially, lead to a local denial of service. (
CVE-2008-4933
868
,
CVE-2008-5025
869
, Low)
• a flaw was found in the HFS Plus (HFS+) file system implementation. This could, potentially, lead to
a local denial of service when write operations are performed. (
CVE-2008-4934
870
, Low)
In addition, these updated packages fix the following bugs:
• when using the nfsd daemon in a clustered setup, kernel panics appeared seemingly at random.
These panics were caused by a race condition in the device-mapper mirror target.
• the clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, ) syscall returned a smaller timespec value
than the result of previous clock_gettime() function execution, which resulted in a negative, and
nonsensical, elapsed time value.
• nfs_create_rpc_client was called with a "flavor" parameter which was usually ignored and ended
up unconditionally creating the RPC client with an AUTH_UNIX flavor. This caused problems on
AUTH_GSS mounts when the credentials needed to be refreshed. The credops did not match the
authorization type, which resulted in the credops dereferencing an incorrect part of the AUTH_UNIX
rpc_auth struct.
• when copy_user_c terminated prematurely due to reading beyond the end of the user buffer and the
kernel jumped to the exception table entry, the rsi register was not cleared. This resulted in exiting
back to user code with garbage in the rsi register.
• the hexdump data in s390dbf traces was incomplete. The length of the data traced was incorrect
and the SAN payload was read from a different place then it was written to.
• when using connected mode (CM) in IPoIB on ehca2 hardware, it was not possible to transmit any
data.
• when an application called fork() and pthread_create() many times and, at some point, a thread
forked a child and then attempted to call the setpgid() function, then this function failed and returned
and ESRCH error value.
Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these
issues. Note: for this update to take effect, the system must be rebooted.