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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-12823
2011-09-17 19:29:10
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Name        : kernel
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 3.1.0
Release     : 0.rc6.git0.3.fc16
URL         : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary     : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic functions
of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device
input and output, etc.

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Update Information:

CVE-2011-3191: cifs: fix possible memory corruption in CIFSFindNext
Other assorted bugfixes, mostly for ppc
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #738387 - ipw2200 driver deadlocks with itself trying to take
 rtnl_mutex
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738387
  [ 2 ] Bug #737984 - possible circular locking dependency detected
 3.0.1-5.fc16.kh.ppc64
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737984
  [ 3 ] Bug #738194 - ipvsadm cannot create IPv6 virtual service
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738194
  [ 4 ] Bug #738096 - Power virtual serial driver fails to connect
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738096
  [ 5 ] Bug #733766 - ibmveth 30000004: DMA-API: device driver frees DMA memory
 with wrong function
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733766
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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/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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