CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2010:0398 centos5 i386

The remote host is missing an update for the 'kernel' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues: * a flaw was found in the Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) implementation. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted ISO MPEG-2 Transport Stream (TS) frame to a target system, resulting in an infinite loop (denial of service). (CVE-2010-1086, Important) * on AMD64 systems, it was discovered that the kernel did not ensure the ELF interpreter was available before making a call to the SET_PERSONALITY macro. A local attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service by running a 32-bit application that attempts to execute a 64-bit application. (CVE-2010-0307, Moderate) * a flaw was found in the kernel connector implementation. A local, unprivileged user could trigger this flaw by sending an arbitrary number of notification requests using specially-crafted netlink messages, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2010-0410, Moderate) * a flaw was found in the Memory-mapped I/O (MMIO) instruction decoder in the Xen hypervisor implementation. An unprivileged guest user could use this flaw to trick the hypervisor into emulating a certain instruction, which could crash the guest (denial of service). (CVE-2010-0730, Moderate) * a divide-by-zero flaw was found in the azx_position_ok() function in the driver for Intel High Definition Audio, snd-hda-intel. A local, unprivileged user could trigger this flaw to cause a kernel crash (denial of service). (CVE-2010-1085, Moderate) This update also fixes the following bugs: * in some cases, booting a system with the 'iommu=on' kernel parameter resulted in a Xen hypervisor panic. (BZ#580199) * the fnic driver flushed the Rx queue instead of the Tx queue after fabric login. This caused crashes in some cases. (BZ#580829) * 'kernel unaligned access' warnings were logged to the dmesg log on some systems. (BZ#580832) * the 'Northbridge Error, node 1, core: -1 K8 ECC error' error occurred on some systems using the amd64_edac driver. (BZ#580836) * in rare circumstances, when using kdump and booting a kernel with 'crashkernel=128M 16M', the kdump kernel did not boot after a crash. (BZ#580838) * TLB page table entry flushing was done incorrectly on IBM System z, possibly causing crashes, subtle data inconsistency, or other issues. (BZ#580839) * iSCSI failover times were slower than in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3. (BZ#580840) * fixed floating point st ... Description truncated, please see the referenced URL(s) for more information.

kernel on CentOS 5

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