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Fedora 22: 2015-9712 Moderate Kernel Security Issues Update

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Calendar Grey June 21, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A recent kernel security patch for Fedora 22 resolves several significant vulnerabilities, incorporating essential fixes and enhancing overall system reliability.
Update to latest upstream stable release, Linux v4.0.5

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

Update to latest upstream stable release, Linux v4.0.5. Wide variety of fixes across the tree.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update Fedora bug fix kernel stability

Change Log

* Mon Jun 8 2015 Josh Boyer - Linux v4.0.5 * Thu Jun 4 2015 Josh Boyer - Backport commit to fix block spew (rhbz 1226621) - Add patch to fix SMT guests on POWER7 (rhbz 1227877) - Add patch to turn of WC mmaps on i915 from airlied (rhbz 1226743) * Wed Jun 3 2015 Laura Abbott - Fix del_timer_sync in mwifiex * Wed Jun 3 2015 Laura Abbott - Drop that blasted firwmare warning until we get a real fix (rhbz 1133378) * Wed Jun 3 2015 Laura Abbott - Fix auditing of canonical mode (rhbz 1188695) * Wed Jun 3 2015 Josh Boyer - CVE-2015-1420 fhandle race condition (rhbz 1187534 1227417) * Tue Jun 2 2015 Laura Abbott - Fix fd_do_rw error (rhbz 1218882) * Tue Jun 2 2015 Josh Boyer - Fix middle button issues on external Lenovo keyboards (rhbz 1225563) * Thu May 28 2015 Josh Boyer - Add quirk for Mac Pro backlight (rhbz 1217249) * Thu May 28 2015 Josh Boyer - 4.0.4-303 - Add patch to avoid vmmouse being classified as a joystic (rhbz 1214474) * Wed May 27 2015 Josh Boyer -4.0.4-302 - Apply queued fixes for crasher reported by Alex Larsson - Enable in-kernel vmmouse driver (rhbz 1214474) * Tue May 26 2015 Laura Abbott - Fix signed division error (rhbz 1200353) * Tue May 26 2015 Josh Boyer - Backport patch to fix might_sleep splat (rhbz 1220519)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1187534 - CVE-2015-1420 kernel: fs/fhandle.c race condition https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1187534

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: 4.0.5
Release: 300.fc22
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update Fedora bug fix kernel stability

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