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Ubuntu 20.04: 2023-4fa56f2a29 Fixed Critical Security Issues in Libraries

fedora
Calendar Grey January 12, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Kernel enhancement for Fedora 23 to the most recent stable release, rectifying vulnerabilities linked to data exposure and unauthorized access exploits.
Update to latest upstream stable release, 4.3.3

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

Update to latest upstream stable release, 4.3.3. This is a major kernel version rebase and testers should take care to ensure things are working as expected.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate information leak kernel update Fedora privilege escalation

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1292045 - CVE-2015-8569 kernel: Information leak from getsockname https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1292045 [ 2 ] Bug #1292840 - CVE-2015-8575 kernel: information leak in sco_sock_bind() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1292840 [ 3 ] Bug #1295287 - CVE-2015-8709 Kernel: ptrace: potential privilege escalation in user namespaces https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1295287

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 23
Version: 4.3.3
Release: 300.fc23
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate information leak kernel update Fedora privilege escalation

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