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Fedora 22 Kernel Security Advisory 2015-c4ed00a68f Moderate Threat

fedora
Calendar Grey December 16, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 23 kernel patch released resolving various significant vulnerabilities and exposure issues within network protocol management.
The 4.2.7 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.2.7 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Fedora moderate severity kernel

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1285326 - CVE-2015-7515 kernel: aiptek: crash on invalid USB device descriptors https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285326 [ 2 ] Bug #1270158 - CVE-2015-7833 kernel: usbvision: crash on invalid USB device descriptors https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270158 [ 3 ] Bug #1286261 - CVE-2015-8374 kernel: Information leak when truncating of compressed/inlined extents on BTRFS https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1286261

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: 4.2.7
Release: 200.fc22
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Fedora moderate severity kernel

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