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Fedora 23 Kernel Update: 2016-9c17cb9648 Critical Memory Access Issues

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Calendar Grey December 10, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
New kernel patch released for Fedora 23, tackling vital vulnerabilities including memory corruption flaws and additional fixes. Maintain your security!
The 4.8.12 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.8.12 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue software update Fedora security fix kernel memory access

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1400804 - CVE-2016-9777 Kernel: kvm: out of bounds memory access via vcpu_id https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400804 [ 2 ] Bug #1400468 - CVE-2016-9756 Kernel: kvm: stack memory information leakage https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400468 [ 3 ] Bug #1400904 - CVE-2016-9755 kernel: netfilter: Out-of-bounds write due to a signedness issue when defragmenting ipv6 packets https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400904

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade kernel' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: kernel
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 4.8.12
Release: 100.fc23
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue software update Fedora security fix kernel memory access

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