Linux 2.6.16.55

Linux 2.6.16.55

[Adrian Bunk]

Security fixes since 2.6.16.54:
- CVE-2005-0504: fix buffer overflow in the moxa driver
- CVE-2007-2453: random fixes
- CVE-2007-3104: store sysfs inode nrs in s_ino to avoid readdir oopses
- CVE-2007-3105: random: fix bound check ordering
- CVE-2007-3848: Reset current->pdeath_signal on SUID binary execution
- CVE-2007-4571: Convert snd-page-alloc proc file to use seq_file
- CVE-2007-4573: x86_64: Zero extend all registers after ptrace in 32bit entry path


Location:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/

git tree:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git

RSS feed of the git tree:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git;a=rss


Changes since 2.6.16.54:

Adrian Bunk (10):
      unexport ktime_get_real
      unexport neigh_update_hhs
      unexport cpufreq_parse_governor
      unexport csr1212_release_keyval
      sound/core/pcm_lib.c: don't export static functions
      unexport ip_conntrack_{,un}register_notifier
      snd_mem_proc_read(): convert to list_for_each_entry*
      Linux 2.6.16.55-rc1
      Revert "TCP: Fix TCP handling of SACK in bidirectional flows"
      Linux 2.6.16.55

Andi Kleen (1):
      x86_64: Zero extend all registers after ptrace in 32bit entry path (CVE-2007-4573)

Dann Frazier (1):
      fix buffer overflow in the moxa driver (CVE-2005-0504)

Eric Sandeen (1):
      sysfs: store sysfs inode nrs in s_ino to avoid readdir oopses (CVE-2007-3104)

Kumar Gala (1):
      [POWERPC] Flush registers to proper task context

Marcel Holtmann (1):
      Reset current->pdeath_signal on SUID binary execution (CVE-2007-3848)

Matt Mackall (3):
      random: fix error in entropy extraction (CVE-2007-2453 1 of 2)
      random: fix seeding with zero entropy (CVE-2007-2453 2 of 2)
      random: fix bound check ordering (CVE-2007-3105)

Mikael Pettersson (1):
      [SPARC]: fix sparc64 gcc 4.2 compile failure

Nick Bowler (1):
      [IPSEC] AH4: Update IPv4 options handling to conform to RFC 4302.

Takashi Iwai (1):
      Convert snd-page-alloc proc file to use seq_file (CVE-2007-4571)


 Makefile                                     |    2 
 arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c                |    6 -
 arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32entry.S                 |   18 +++-
 arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c                  |    4 -
 drivers/char/moxa.c                          |    8 +-
 drivers/char/random.c                        |   76 +++++++++++--------
 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c                    |    1 
 drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c             |    1 
 fs/exec.c                                    |   13 ++-
 fs/sysfs/dir.c                               |   16 ++--
 fs/sysfs/inode.c                             |    1 
 fs/sysfs/mount.c                             |    1 
 include/asm-sparc/mostek.h                   |    2 
 include/asm-sparc64/mostek.h                 |    2 
 include/linux/sysfs.h                        |    1 
 kernel/hrtimer.c                             |    2 
 net/core/neighbour.c                         |    1 
 net/ipv4/ah4.c                               |    2 
 net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_standalone.c |    2 
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c                         |    5 -
 sound/core/memalloc.c                        |   72 ++++++++++--------
 sound/core/pcm_lib.c                         |    4 -
 22 files changed, 137 insertions(+), 103 deletions(-)