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Fedora 22: 2015-7784 Critical Update: Local Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey May 11, 2015
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A recent kernel update for Fedora 22 addresses significant concerns such as the local privilege escalation flaw, complete with CVE identifiers.
The 4.0.2 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.0.2 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora kernel update critical fix software management local escalation

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1218074 - CVE-2015-3636 kernel: ping sockets: use-after-free leading to local privilege escalation https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218074

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: 4.0.2
Release: 300.fc22
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora kernel update critical fix software management local escalation

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