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Fedora 21: Security Advisory For Kernel Soft Lockup Fix

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Calendar Grey November 1, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent kernel refresh for Fedora 21 fixes issues related to soft lockups within the networking components, aiming to improve both system reliability and protection.
kernel-4.1.10-100.fc21 - Linxu v4.1.10 - Add patch to fix soft lockups in network stack (rhbz 1266691)

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

kernel-4.1.10-100.fc21 - Linxu v4.1.10 - Add patch to fix soft lockups in network stack (rhbz 1266691)

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora update information patch kernel network issue soft lockup

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1265607 - CVE-2015-5257 kernel: NULL pointer dereference in USB WhiteHEAT serial driver https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265607 [ 2 ] Bug #1209367 - CVE-2015-2925 Kernel: vfs: Do not allow escaping from bind mounts https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1209367 [ 3 ] Bug #1268270 - CVE-2015-7613 kernel: Unauthorized access to IPC objects with SysV shm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1268270

Update Instructions

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 .

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Name: kernel
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 4.1.10
Release: 100.fc21
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora update information patch kernel network issue soft lockup

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