Download Linux Kernel 2.6.19.2

It’s been a while since the Linux Kernel showed up in our junk tracker, but luckily the developers recently released version 2.6.19.2 so we can mention it here. For lovers of long lists of changes, we refer you to the lists of changes in 2.6.19, 2.6.19.1 and 2.6.19.2. And the announcements of the last three releases look like this:

Version 2.6.19.2:

We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.19.2 kernel. There’s a long list of fixes, not the least of which is the data corruption fix from Linus and some security fixes:

• d4ea7f9f: Bluetooth: Add packet size checks for CAPI messages (CVE-2006-6106)
• eaca4fd8: handle ext3 directory corruption better (CVE-2006-6053)
• fe89cf78: corrupted cramfs filesystems cause kernel oops (CVE-2006-5823)
• 8d312ae1: ext2: skip pages past number of blocks in ext2_find_entry (CVE-2006-6054)
• 54e25b04: VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap’ed page writeback
• e26353af: Fix incorrect user space access locking in mincore() (CVE-2006-4814)

thanks,
-chris

Version 2.6.19.1:

We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.19.1 kernel. It’s an assortment of fixes with a couple security related:

• a526d58e: do_coredump() and not stopping rewrite attacks? (CVE-2006-6304)
• ad8ca99c: TOKENRING: Remote memory corruptor in ibmtr.c

thanks,
-chris

Version 2.6.19:

There it finally is (or rather – I’m currently uploading the tar-file and patches, and the mirrors are hopefully busily pushing out the git tree that is already updated).

There’s not a lot to be said about the changes since -rc6: the shortlog (appended) tells the whole story, and it’s really mostly a lot of one-liners or other really small changes. Bugs fixed, but nothing that stands out in my mind.

So go get it. It’s one of those weird “perfect” kernels. So if it doesn’t happen to compile with your config (or it does compile, but then does unspeakable acts of perversion with your pet dachshund), you can rest easy knowing that it’s all your own d*mn fault, and you should just fix your evil ways.

You could send me and the kernel mailing list a note about it anyway, of course. (And perhaps pictures, if your dachshund is involved. Not that we’d be interested, of course. No. Just so that we’d know to avoid it next time).

Linus