Updated kernel packages available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 5

Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support
and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3. This is the
fifth regular update.

The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system.

This is the fifth regular kernel update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

New features introduced by this update include:

- support for 2-TB partitions on block devices
- support for new disk, network, and USB devices
- support for clustered APIC mode on AMD64 NUMA systems
- netdump support on AMD64, Intel EM64T, Itanium, and ppc64 systems
- diskdump support on sym53c8xx and SATA piix/promise adapters
- NMI switch support on AMD64 and Intel EM64T systems

There were many bug fixes in various parts of the kernel. The ongoing
effort to resolve these problems has resulted in a marked improvement
in the reliability and scalability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

Some key areas affected by these fixes include the kernel's networking,
SATA, TTY, and USB subsystems, as well as the architecture-dependent
handling under the ia64, ppc64, and x86_64 directories. Scalability
improvements were made primarily in the memory management and file
system areas.

A flaw in offset handling in the xattr file system code backported to
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 was fixed. On 64-bit systems, a user who
can access an ext3 extended-attribute-enabled file system could cause
a denial of service (system crash). This issue is rated as having a
moderate security impact (CAN-2005-0757).

The following device drivers have been upgraded to new versions:

3c59x ------ LK1.1.18
3w-9xxx ---- 2.24.00.011fw (new in Update 5)
3w-xxxx ---- 1.02.00.037
8139too ---- (upstream 2.4.29)
b44 -------- 0.95
cciss ------ v2.4.54.RH1
e100 ------- 3.3.6-k2
e1000 ------ 5.6.10.1-k2
lpfcdfc ---- 1.0.13 (new in Update 5)
tg3 -------- 3.22RH

Note: The kernel-unsupported package contains various drivers and modules
that are unsupported and therefore might contain security problems that
have not been addressed.

All Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 users are advised to upgrade their
kernels to the packages associated with their machine architectures
and configurations as listed in this erratum.

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously released
errata relevant to your system have been applied. Use Red Hat
Network to download and update your packages. To launch the Red Hat
Update Agent, use the following command:

up2date

For information on how to install packages manually, refer to the
following Web page for the System Administration or Customization
guide specific to your system:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/

116289 - BLKPG_ADD_PARTITION op of BLKPG ioctl doesn't let you add partitions >= 1TB
119351 - Getting OOM errors on an unconstrained system
121032 - CAN-2004-0177 ext3 infoleak
121716 - Raw device I/O transfer size limited to 32KB.
123415 - API Breakage: NFS "No locks available" with kernel 2.4.21-15.ELsmp
124600 - Unexpected error: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds.
126407 - CAN-2004-0075 Vicam USB user/kernel copying
127066 - Panic is occurring in the I/O completion interrupt handling for the character interface driver (sg).
128176 - Add the 3w-9xxx module (required for the 9000 series 3ware cards)
129084 - ICH6 SATA support
130113 - Strange output of /proc/mtrr
130365 - Request to include EMC Celerra and iSCSI devices to the black list
130774 - oops in drivers/char/tty_io.c:init_dev()
131674 - CAN-2004-0814 potential race condition in RHEL 2.1/3 tty layer
131981 - O_DIRECT doesn't work on LVM devices
132162 - NFS intr flag prevents core dumps
132257 - LTC-8859: softdog.o need to be included into RHEL distributions
132339 - x86 compatibility mode apps using signals crash under EM64T
132494 - POSIX Asynchronous IO support is unstable
132838 - Kernel Panic: Unable to satisfy kernel paging request... when starting ServerVantage.
133020 - [RHEL3][IA32E][X86_64]Wrong FPU IP and DP in the SIGFPE signal context
133108 - CAN-2004-0814 input/serio local DOS
133113 - CAN-2004-1058 /proc/<PID>/cmdline information disclosure
133388 - 3c59x: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register d0. (10Mb hub)
133905 - kernel crash, fatal exception, accessing /proc, EXT3-fs error
134832 - Ia32e + Intel SATA 82801EB + kernel 2.4.21-20EL; unable to mount root partition.
135266 - Panics while backing up LVM snapshots
135583 - RHEL3U3 panics on boot for HP rx5670
135688 - NFS ESTALES returned on open [IT50092]
136317 - When copying rootfs to /mnt/sdc/, rsync accessed /proc/kcore and kernel crashed
136398 - NFS direct reads don't flush dirty cached pages
137201 - RHEL3U2/U3 x86-64 - /proc/mtrr reported incorrectly
137830 - worktodo does not support NFS aio
137961 - tg3 fiber auto-negotiation
138182 - Kernel hang when cat'ting file on intr NFS mount
138240 - MCA in tulip on ifconfig down/reboot
138815 - [RHEL3-U5][Diskdump] Stalls before printing "CPU frozen"
138827 - usb: raced timeout errors when using usb/serial adapter
138905 - Unkillable processes under 64bit Linux which use Kernel Asynchronous I/O
139421 - [RHEL3-U4][Diskdump] Diskdump failed with serial console enabled
139434 - [RHEL3-U4][Diskdump] Segmentation Fault after cliloop
139440 - [RHEL3-U5][Diskdump] All CPUs are displayed in CPU frozen
139465 - em64t/ia32e kernel panic: 'interrupt handler - not syncing' during heavy network I/O
140083 - lx-choptp19 crashed running 2.4.21-20.EL.BZ131027.hotfixhugemem
140331 - stack overflows can occur on x86_64 under stack pressure when softirq's are handled
140552 - Kernel wrongly complains about application bug when loading modules
140585 - [RHEL3][PATCH] SIOCGHWADDR does not clear buffer for ppp connections
140616 - RHEL3 PATCH dev.c: clear SIOCGIFHWADDR buffer if !dev->addr_len
140790 - e100 and e1000 drivers should return EINVAL when ethtool tries to set rx-mini or rx-jumbo
141282 - nptl futex_wait fix
141377 - [PATCH] memory leak in ipv6 ip6_{push,flush}_pending_frames()
141388 - FAT32 file system zero length files corruption after remount
141697 - ATAPI-CDROM not accessible with kernel options ide-scsi and swiotlb
141757 - Infinite loop when syncing over automounted NFS
142683 - bonding with mii monitoring does not work with realtek card
142725 - [PATCH] video1394 fixes
142954 - sata_sx4 4GB problem
143542 - Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004
143565 - NIC BCM4401 on Dell Inspiron 5100 broken
143625 - kernel can not register scsi LUNs above 7 for mylexFFx2 FC RAID controller
144059 - CAN-2005-0403 panic in tty init_dev
144260 - U4 kernel sound broken on certain AC 97 systems
144360 - Fibre Channel tape speed regression (qla2200)
144530 - random poolsize sysctl handler integer overflow
144990 - Anaconda installer partion error large RAID volume
145331 - kernel panic in get_signal_to_deliver
145409 - panic_on_oops hook removed on ia64 by diskdump patch
145563 - tar crashes DELL server every 4th day.
145746 - mmap() system call can return Nil
146345 - recv returns EAGAIN instead of EINTR when interrupted
146501 - ext2/ext3 w/ 1024 blocksize eats all memory
147541 - rsync creating truncated files on fat32 filesystem
147580 - Race condition in md subsystem causes panic
147704 - laus incorrectly truncates path string when predicate filter is used
147969 - msync(..., ..., MS_SYNC) returning before data written to disk
148855 - CAN-2005-0204 OUTS instruction does not cause SIGSEGV for all ports
148869 - CAN-2005-0135 ia64 local DoS
150334 - Kernel panic: Code: Bad EIP value
151086 - kernel locks up tty/psuedo-tty access
151241 - CAN-2005-0384 pppd remote DoS
151805 - CAN-2005-0449 Possible remote Oops/firewall bypass - kABI breaker
151934 - Running lshw causes MCA on Olympia rx8620
152178 - CAN-2005-0750 bluetooth security flaw
152411 - CAN-2005-0749 load_elf_library possible DoS
152552 - CAN-2004-1073 looks unfixed in RHEL3
152627 - sata_sil missing PCI IDs for ATI SATA controller
152959 - Repeated Kernel Panics while using LVM Snapshot
155234 - CAN-2005-0137 ia64 syscall_table DoS
156617 - SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls wait().
156882 - aggressively clean bhs
156928 - sata_promise in 2.4.21-27.0.4.EL doesn't support Promise sataII 150 tx4 yet

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-0757.html

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