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Fedora 22: 2015-15130 Urgent Kernel DoS Vulnerability Patches Released

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Calendar Grey September 11, 2015
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Explore the latest updates in Fedora 22, featuring an important kernel upgrade that rectifies significant bugs and mitigates possible Denial of Service vulnerabilities.
A number of bug fixes across the 4.1.6 kernel tree

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

A number of bug fixes across the 4.1.6 kernel tree

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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS issue critical Fedora bug fix kernel

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1256746 - CVE-2015-6666 kernel: Linux x86_64 NT flag handling optimization allowing DoS https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1256746

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: 4.1.6
Release: 201.fc22
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS issue critical Fedora bug fix kernel

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