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Fedora: 22 Kernel Update FEDORA-2015-7371 Critical: chown Race Condition

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Calendar Grey May 3, 2015
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The kernel enhancement for Fedora 22 resolves major concerns linked to system integrity and performance. Discover additional details.
The 4.0.1 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.0.1 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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security advisory security issue software update Fedora critical fix kernel system stability

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1214030 - CVE-2015-3339 kernel: race condition between chown() and execve() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214030

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: 4.0.1
Release: 300.fc22
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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security advisory security issue software update Fedora critical fix kernel system stability

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