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Fedora Update

This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/
This update can be installed with Yum Update Agent; you can type 'yum update' command in the terminal.
This update can also be installed with the Red Hat Update Agent; you can launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the 'up2date' command in the terminal.

[SECURITY] Fedora Core 1 Update: kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl

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Fedora Security Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-026
2003-12-02
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Name        : kernel
Version     : 2.4.22                      
Release     : 1.2129.nptl                  
Summary     : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of your
Red Hat Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic functions
of the operating system:  memory allocation, process allocation, device
input and output, etc.

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The kernel shipped with Fedora Core 1 was vulnerable to a bug in the
error 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 

- sys_tgkill wasn't enabled on IA32.

* Sun Nov 30 2003 Dave Jones 

- 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@comcast.net>

- Merge required ia32 syscalls for AMD64
- [f]truncate64 for 32bit code fix

* Mon Nov 24 2003 Dave Jones 

- 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 

- Drop netfilter change which proved to be bad upstream.

* Thu Nov 13 2003 Justin M. Forbes <64bit_fedora@comcast.net>

- Fix NForce3 DMA and ATA133 on AMD64

* Wed Nov 12 2003 Dave Jones 

- Fix syscall definitions on AMD64

* Tue Nov 11 2003 Dave Jones 

- Fix Intel 440GX Interrupt routing.
- Fix waitqueue leak in cmpci driver.

* Mon Nov 10 2003 Dave Jones 

- Kill noisy warnings in the DRM modules.
- Merge munged upstream x86-64.org patch for various AMD64 fixes.

* Mon Nov 03 2003 Dave Jones 

- Further cleanups related to AMD64 build.

* Fri Oct 31 2003 Dave Jones 

- Make AMD64 build.

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