Comment 11 for bug 280821

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 2.6.24-24.53

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linux (2.6.24-24.53) hardy-proposed; urgency=low

  [Stefan Bader]

  * Rebuild of 2.6.24-24.51 with 2.6.24-23.52 security patches applied.

linux (2.6.24-24.51) hardy-proposed; urgency=low

  [Alessio Igor Bogani]

  * rt: Updated PREEMPT_RT support to rt27
    - LP: #324275

  [Steve Beattie]

  * fix apparmor memory leak on deleted file ops
    - LP: #329489

  [Upstream Kernel Changes]

  * KVM: MMU: Add locking around kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access()
    - LP: #335097, #333409
  * serial: 8250: fix shared interrupts issues with SMP and RT kernels
    - LP: #280821
  * 8250.c: port.lock is irq-safe
    - LP: #280821
  * ACPI: Clear WAK_STS on resume
    - LP: #251338

linux (2.6.24-24.50) hardy-proposed; urgency=low

  [Alok Kataria]

  * x86: add X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR feature bit
    - LP: #319945
  * x86: add a synthetic TSC_RELIABLE feature bit
    - LP: #319945
  * x86: vmware: look for DMI string in the product serial key
    - LP: #319945
  * x86: Hypervisor detection and get tsc_freq from hypervisor
    - LP: #319945
  * x86: Use the synthetic TSC_RELIABLE bit to workaround virtualization
    anomalies.
    - LP: #319945
  * x86: Skip verification by the watchdog for TSC clocksource.
    - LP: #319945
  * x86: Mark TSC synchronized on VMware.
    - LP: #319945

  [Colin Ian King]

  * SAUCE: Bluetooth USB: fix kernel panic during suspend while streaming
    audio to bluetooth headset
    - LP: #331106

  [James Troup]

  * XEN: Enable architecture specific get_unmapped_area_topdown
    - LP: #237724

  [Stefan Bader]

  * Xen: Fix FTBS after Vmware TSC updates.
    - LP: #319945

  [Upstream Kernel Changes]

  * r8169: fix RxMissed register access
    - LP: #324760
  * r8169: Tx performance tweak helper
    - LP: #326891
  * r8169: use pci_find_capability for the PCI-E features
    - LP: #326891
  * r8169: add 8168/8101 registers description
    - LP: #326891
  * r8169: add hw start helpers for the 8168 and the 8101
    - LP: #326891
  * r8169: additional 8101 and 8102 support
    - LP: #326891
  * Fix memory corruption in console selection
    - LP: #329007

linux (2.6.24-23.52) hardy-security; urgency=low

  [Stefan Bader]
  * rt: Fix FTBS caused by shm changes
    - CVE-2009-0859

  [Steve Beattie]

  * fix apparmor memory leak on deleted file ops
    - LP: #329489

  [Upstream Kernel Changes]

  * NFS: Remove the buggy lock-if-signalled case from do_setlk()
    - CVE-2008-4307
  * sctp: Avoid memory overflow while FWD-TSN chunk is received with bad
    stream ID
    - CVE-2009-0065
  * net: 4 bytes kernel memory disclosure in SO_BSDCOMPAT gsopt try #2
    - CVE-2009-0676
  * sparc: Fix mremap address range validation.
    - CVE-2008-6107
  * copy_process: fix CLONE_PARENT && parent_exec_id interaction
    - CVE-2009-0028
  * security: introduce missing kfree
    - CVE-2009-0031
  * eCryptfs: check readlink result was not an error before using it
    - CVE-2009-0269
  * dell_rbu: use scnprintf() instead of less secure sprintf()
    - CVE-2009-0322
  * drivers/net/skfp: if !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN): inverted logic
    - CVE-2009-0675
  * Ext4: Fix online resize block group descriptor corruption
    - CVE-2009-0745
  * ext4: Initialize the new group descriptor when resizing the filesystem
    - CVE-2009-0745
  * ext4: Add sanity check to make_indexed_dir
    - CVE-2009-0746
  * x86-64: syscall-audit: fix 32/64 syscall hole
    - CVE-2009-0834
  * x86-64: seccomp: fix 32/64 syscall hole
    - CVE-2009-0835
  * shm: fix shmctl(SHM_INFO) lockup with !CONFIG_SHMEM
    - CVE-2009-0859
  * apparmor: Fix handling of larger number of profiles
    - LP: #345144
  * udf: Fix oops when invalid character in filename occurs
    - LP: #321606
  * Fix memory corruption in console selection
    - CVE-2009-1046
  * SPARC64: Loosen checks in exception table handling.
    - LP: #301608, #349655

linux (2.6.24-23.49) hardy-proposed; urgency=low

  [Colin Ian King]

  * drm/i915 fixes to AR register restore
    - LP: #302421

  [Fabio M. Di Nitto]

  * Enable USB serial support on sparc
    - LP: #305188

  [Stefan Bader]

  * openvz: Adapt openvz patch to compile with improved tcp hash
    - LP: #301608
  * Ubuntu-2.6.24-23.47
  * Merge of Ubuntu-2.6.24-23.48 security release

  [Tim Gardner]

  * Enable CONFIG_NFSD_V4=y in -virtual flavour.
    - LP: #224138

  [Upstream Kernel Changes]

  * SPARC64: Loosen checks in exception table handling.
    - LP: #301608
  * SPARC: Fix link errors with gcc-4.3
    - LP: #301608
  * TCP: Improve ipv4 established hash function.
    - LP: #301608
  * NIU: More BMAC alt MAC address fixes.
    - LP: #301608
  * NIU: Fix BMAC alternate MAC address indexing.
    - LP: #301608
  * NIU: Bump driver version and release date.
    - LP: #301608

  [Zhao Yakui]

  * Add "acpi.power_nocheck=1" to disable power state check in power
    transition
    - LP: #69925
  * ACPI: Attach the ACPI device to the ACPI handle as early as possible
    - LP: #69925
  * ACPI: Add DMI check to disable power state check in power transition
    - LP: #69925

 -- Stefan Bader <email address hidden> Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:23:06 -0400