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Letter K

kernel - The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)

Website: http://www.kernel.org/
License: GPLv2
Vendor: Scientific Linux CERN, http://cern.ch/linux
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.

Packages

kernel-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 [17.6 MiB] Changelog by Don Zickus (2009-08-18):
- [misc] information leak in sigaltstack (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [515396]
- [misc] execve: must clear current->clear_child_tid (Oleg Nesterov ) [515429]
- [net] igb: set lan id prior to configuring phy (Stefan Assmann ) [508870]
- [net] udp: socket NULL ptr dereference (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [518043] {CVE-2009-2698}

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