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Fedora 22: 2015-c15f00eb95 Critical Bug Overflow in virtio-net

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Calendar Grey October 16, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Kernel 4.2.3 patch mitigates overflow vulnerability in virtio-net for Fedora 22. Update now for enhanced protection.
The 4.2.3 stable rebase contains a number of new features and important bug fixes across the tree and improved hardware support

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.2.3 stable rebase contains a number of new features and important bug fixes across the tree and improved hardware support. kernel-4.2.3-200.fc22 - Linux v4.2.3 - CVE-2015-5156 virtio-net: bug overflow with large fraglist (rhbz 1243852 1266515)

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update critical kernel network bug overflow

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1243852 - CVE-2015-5156 kernel: buffer overflow with fraglist larger than MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 2 in virtio-net https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243852

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: 4.2.3
Release: 200.fc22
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update critical kernel network bug overflow

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