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Ubuntu: 2017-4f7c851a19 Important: Fix for Memory Corruption Issue

fedora
Calendar Grey May 6, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Kernel 4.4.8 for Fedora 22 resolves vital issues, notably vulnerabilities related to memory overruns, enhancing overall system reliability.
The 4.4.8 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree ---- The 4.4.7 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.4.8 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree ---- The 4.4.7 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow kernel update Fedora critical fix

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1323956 - CVE-2016-3961 xsa174 xen: hugetlbfs use may crash PV Linux guests (XSA-174) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1323956 [ 2 ] Bug #1328478 - CVE-2016-3955 Kernel: usbip: buffer overflow by trusting length of incoming packets https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1328478 [ 3 ] Bug #1324749 - CVE-2016-3672 kernel: unlimiting the stack disables ASLR https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324749 [ 4 ] Bug #1323577 - CVE-2015-8839 kernel: ext4 filesystem page fault race condition with fallocate call. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1323577 [ 5 ] Bug #1324782 - CVE-2016-3951 kernel: crash on invalid USB device descriptors (usbnet driver) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324782

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: 4.4.8
Release: 200.fc22
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow kernel update Fedora critical fix

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