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kernel-doc - Various documentation bits found in the kernel source.

License: GPLv2
Vendor: Scientific Linux
Description:
This package contains documentation files from the kernel
source. Various bits of information about the Linux kernel and the
device drivers shipped with it are documented in these files.

You'll want to install this package if you need a reference to the
options that can be passed to Linux kernel modules at load time.

Packages

kernel-doc-2.4.21-63.EL.i386 [1.8 MiB] Changelog by Don Howard (2009-10-28):
- fs: fix pipe null pointer dereference (Don Howard) [530935] {CVE-2009-3547}
kernel-doc-2.4.21-60.EL.i386 [1.8 MiB] Changelog by Don Howard (2009-08-24):
- Fix null dereference with udp corking (Don Howard) [518040] {CVE-2009-2698}
kernel-doc-2.4.21-58.EL.i386 [1.8 MiB] Changelog by Don Howard (2008-11-03):
- copy_user doesn't zero tail bytes on page fault (Don Howard) [433941] {CVE-2008-2729}
- Fix long symlink support (Fabio Olive Leite) [BZ 438758]
- Fix possible buffer overflow in ASN.1 parsing routine (Don Howard) [444461] {CVE-2008-1673}
- Fix exploitable remote memory leak in sit (Don Howard) [446034] {CVE-2008-2136}
- Fix possible panic in mptctl_gettargetinfo (Don Howard) [451955]
- Add add NULL pointer checks in tty drivers (Don Howard) [453158] {CVE-2008-2812}
- Add a kernel parameter to disable lost tick accounting on x86_64 (Don Howard) [455921]
- Fix possible isdn_net buffer overflows (Don Howard) [456361] {CVE-2007-6063}
- Fix lookup on deleted directory (Eugene Teo) [457862] {CVE-2008-3275}
- Add missing capability checks in sbni_ioctl (Eugene Teo) [460404] {CVE-2008-3525}
- Remove suid/sgid bits on ftruncate (dhoward) [463684] {CVE-2008-4210}
kernel-doc-2.4.21-57.EL.i386 [1.8 MiB] Changelog by Don Howard (2008-04-22):
- Update: Fix race condition in dnotify() (Al Viro) [439755 443436] {CVE-2008-1375 CVE-2008-1669}
kernel-doc-2.4.21-53.EL.i386 [1.8 MiB] Changelog by Don Howard (2007-11-13):
- Fix ipv4 treason uncloaked message (Anton Arapov) [249237]
- Fix ipv4 fib-sem-out-of-bounds checking (Don Howard) [250429] {CVE-2007-2172}
- Reset current->pdeath_signal on SUID binary execution (Peter Zijlstra) [251117] {CVE-2007-3848}
- Fix local DoS with corrupted elf on ia64 (Don Howard) [289171] {CVE-2006-4538}
- prevent stack from growing into hugepages region (Don Howard) [294951] {CVE-2007-3739}
- Fix missing ioctl permission checks in aacraid (Don Howard) [298331] {CVE-2007-4308}

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