[BlueOnyx:02185] New CentOS5 kernel available (important update)

[Michael Stauber]

Hi all,

With an unprecedented speed (same day as RedHat) the CentOS.org team has 
released an updated CentOS5 kernel: 

	kernel-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5
	http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-August/016062.html

This updated kernel fixes two important security holes ({CVE-2009-2698} and 
{CVE-2009-2692}) which could allow that a local unprivileged user runs a 
denial of service attack against your server, or which could allow the 
attacker to gain root privileges.

Additionally it fixes a potential memory leak.

We recommend that you run "yum update" as soon as possible and then also 
reboot your BlueOnyx so that the updated Kernel comes into effect.

Users who already have installed our unofficial CentOS5 kernel from the 
BlueOnyx testing repository (see message [BlueOnyx:02135]) should also "yum 
update" and reboot.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber