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Fedora: 2015-13396 Moderate: Kernel 4.1.5 Information Leak

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Calendar Grey August 19, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Kernel version 4.1.5 upgrade for Fedora 22 addresses significant bugs. Users are advised to execute 'yum update kernel' for swift installation.
The 4.1.5 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.1.5 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Change Log

* Mon Aug 10 2015 Laura Abbott - 4.1.5-200 - Linux v4.1.5 * Mon Aug 10 2015 Laura Abbott - Fix use after free in HID input (rhbz 1251877 1251880 1250279 1248741) * Tue Aug 4 2015 Josh Boyer - Patch from Nicholas Kudriavtsev for Acer Switch 12 Fn keys (rhbz 1244511) * Tue Aug 4 2015 Peter Robinson - Back port AMD Seattle a0 4.1 NIC driver update * Mon Aug 3 2015 Josh Boyer - 4.1.4-200 - Linux v4.1.4 - CVE-2015-5697 info leak in md driver (rhbz 1249011 1249013) * Wed Jul 29 2015 Laura Abbott - 4.1.3-201 - tag and build for CVE fixes * Mon Jul 27 2015 Laura Abbott - CVE-2015-3290 CVE-2015-3291 NMI issues (rhbz 1243465 1245927) * Mon Jul 27 2015 Josh Boyer - CVE-2015-1333 add_key memory leak (rhbz 1244171) * Thu Jul 23 2015 Laura Abbott - Fix warning from pcmcia (rhbz 1180920 1206724) * Wed Jul 22 2015 Laura Abbott - 4.1.3-200 - Add patches for Ideapad RF switches (rhbz 1192270) * Wed Jul 22 2015 Laura Abbott - Linux v4.1.3 * Wed Jul 15 2015 Laura Abbott - 4.1.2-200 - Linux v4.1.2 rebase * Fri Jul 10 2015 Laura Abbott - 4.0.8-300 - Linux v4.0.8 * Tue Jul 7 2015 Josh Boyer - Drop incorrect patches for now (rhbz 1212230) * Mon Jun 29 2015 Laura Abbott - 4.0.7-300 - Linux v4.0.7 * Tue Jun 23 2015 Justin M. Forbes - 4.0.6-300 - Linux v4.0.6 * Thu Jun 18 2015 Josh Boyer - Add patch to fix touchpad issues on Razer machines (rhbz 1227891) * Fri Jun 12 2015 Josh Boyer - CVE-2015-XXXX kvm: NULL ptr deref in kvm_apic_has_events (rhbz 1230770 1230774) * Thu Jun 11 2015 Josh Boyer - Backport fixes for synaptic 3 finger tap (rhbz 1212230) - Backport btrfs fixes queued for stable (rhbz 1217191) * Tue Jun 9 2015 Josh Boyer - Fix touchpad for Thinkpad S540 (rhbz 1223051) * 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 #1249011 - CVE-2015-5697 linux kernel: information leak in md driver https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249011

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: 4.1.5
Release: 200.fc22
Summary: The Linux kernel

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