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Fedora 34: 2023-1015 Major Process Isolation Vulnerability Patch

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Resolution for a namespace failure issue incorporated in the Fedora 22 kernel security patch. Discover further details regarding the modifications implemented.
The 4.0.4-303 update contains a fix for a namespace crash issue.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.0.4-303 update contains a fix for a namespace crash issue.

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Change Log

* 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 #1220519 - kernel/sched/core.c:7291 __might_sleep+0x87/0x90() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1220519 [ 2 ] Bug #1200353 - regression in ktime.h breaks infrared IR blaster/transmitter after upgrade to Fedora 21 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1200353 [ 3 ] Bug #1214474 - Mouse capture issues when running in vmware https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214474

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: 4.0.4
Release: 303.fc22
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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