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Fedora 22 Kernel Update: Critical Dos Issues Resolved in 4.4.6

fedora
Calendar Grey March 24, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
System update for Fedora 22 introduces vital security enhancements and optimizations to improve overall performance.
The 4.4.6 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.4.6 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue critical Fedora kernel network threat

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1318172 - CVE-2016-3156 kernel: ipv4: denial of service when destroying a network interface https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1318172 [ 2 ] Bug #1317383 - CVE-2016-3134 kernel: netfilter: missing bounds check in ipt_entry structure https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317383 [ 3 ] Bug #1317386 - CVE-2016-3135 kernel: netfilter: size overflow in x_tables https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317386

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 22
Version: 4.4.6
Release: 200.fc22
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue critical Fedora kernel network threat

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