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Fedora 22: Kernel Update 4.4.4 Critical: Multiple Security Fixes

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Calendar Grey March 12, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Crucial kernel patch for Fedora 22 comes with enhancements and updates to XFS tools. Discover further details in the announcement.
The 4.4.4 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.4.4 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. This also contains an important update for XFS utilities

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security advisory update Fedora threat kernel fixes XFS

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1313428 - CVE-2016-2847 kernel: pipe: limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313428 [ 2 ] Bug #1314253 - kernel: Partial SMAP bypass on 64-bit Linux kernels https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314253

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: 4.4.4
Release: 200.fc22
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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security advisory update Fedora threat kernel fixes XFS

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