Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-8684 (kernel)

Summary
The remote host is missing an update to kernel announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-8684.
Solution
Apply the appropriate updates. This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update kernel' at the command line. For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2009-8684
Insight
Update Information: Fix oops in clock_nanosleep syscall which allows an ordinary user to cause a null ptr dereference in the kernel. CVE-2009-2767. Fixes BUG_ON() in the intel gem page fault code breaking GNOME Shell. ChangeLog: * Sat Aug 15 2009 Kyle McMartin 2.6.29.6-217.2.8 - CVE-2009-2767: Fix clock_nanosleep NULL ptr deref. * Fri Aug 14 2009 Kyle McMartin 2.6.29.6-217.2.7 - CVE-2009-2692: Fix sock sendpage NULL ptr deref. * Thu Aug 13 2009 Kristian Høgsberg - 2.6.29.6-217.2.6 - Backport 0e7ddf7e to fix bad BUG_ON() in i915 gem fence management code. Adds drm-i915-gem-bad-bug-on.patch, fixes #514091. * Wed Aug 12 2009 John W. Linville 2.6.29.6-217.2.5 - iwlwifi: fix TX queue race * Mon Aug 10 2009 Jarod Wilson 2.6.29.6-217.2.4 - Add tunable pad threshold support to lirc_imon - Blacklist all iMON devices in usbhid driver so lirc_imon can bind - Add new device ID to lirc_mceusb (#512483) - Enable IR transceiver on the HD PVR
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