Linux 2.6.16.31

Linux 2.6.16.31

[Adrian Bunk]

Security fixes since 2.6.16.30:
- CVE-2006-4572: fix ip6_tables bypass bugs
- CVE-2006-5174: s390: fix user readable uninitialised kernel memory
- CVE-2006-5619: IPV6: fix lockup via /proc/net/ip6_flowlabel


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 2.6.16.30:

Adrian Bunk (2):
      Linux 2.6.16.31-rc1
      Linux 2.6.16.31

Al Viro (1):
      fix RARP ic_servaddr breakage

James Morris (1):
      [IPV6]: fix lockup via /proc/net/ip6_flowlabel (CVE-2006-5619)

Martin Schwidefsky (2):
      [S390] fix user readable uninitialised kernel memory (CVE-2006-5174)
      [S390] fix user readable uninitialised kernel memory, take 2.

Neil Brown (1):
      knfsd: Fix race that can disable NFS server.

Patrick McHardy (2):
      [NETFILTER]: Fix ip6_tables protocol bypass bug (CVE-2006-4572)
      [NETFILTER]: Fix ip6_tables extension header bypass bug (CVE-2006-4572)

Shaohua Li (1):
      ACPI: enable SMP C-states on x86_64

Thomas Gleixner (1):
      posix-cpu-timers: prevent signal delivery starvation


 Makefile                            |    2 
 arch/s390/lib/uaccess.S             |   12 ++++
 arch/s390/lib/uaccess64.S           |   12 ++++
 arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi/Makefile    |    1 
 arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi/processor.c |   72 ----------------------------
 include/asm-x86_64/acpi.h           |    2 
 kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c           |   27 ++++++++--
 net/ipv4/ipconfig.c                 |    2 
 net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c            |    2 
 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c     |   21 +++++---
 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_ah.c        |    7 ++
 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_dst.c       |    9 ++-
 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_frag.c      |    7 ++
 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_hbh.c       |    9 ++-
 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_rt.c        |    7 ++
 net/sunrpc/svcsock.c                |    2 
 16 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 98 deletions(-)

Re: Linux 2.6.16.31

[Ingo Oeser]

Hi Adrian,

On Tuesday, 7. November 2006 15:13, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Security fixes since 2.6.16.30:
> - CVE-2006-4572: fix ip6_tables bypass bugs
> - CVE-2006-5174: s390: fix user readable uninitialised kernel memory
> - CVE-2006-5619: IPV6: fix lockup via /proc/net/ip6_flowlabel

[...]

> Changes since 2.6.16.30:

[...]

Wow! That's an good announcement. I wish that would be standard format
for stable kernel release announcements.


Regards

Ingo Oeser