Download/kernel/rhel5/028stab053.6/changes

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Changes

  • Rebased on the Red Hat 5 kernel (2.6.18-53.1.6.EL5)
  • DoS exploit fix (CVE-2008-0600).

Patches

diff-ms-splice-access-20080211

Patch from mainstream, ported by Den (den@):
adds a proper access checks in sys_splice (CVE-2008-0600).

Bug #98867.
OpenVZ Bug #814.

diff-fs-fsync-enable-rh5-20080131

Patch from Konstantin (khlebnikov@):
adds "fsync-enable" sysctl to manage syncs.

Affects sys_sync, sys_fsync, sys_fdatasync, sys_sync_file_range syscalls. aio_fsync (sys_io_submit) not affected.

Bug #98914.