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Fedora 23 Kernel Security Update: 2016-ee3a114958 Critical Fixes

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Calendar Grey November 24, 2016
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Key enhancements in Fedora 23 Kernel comprise patches along with extended hardware compatibility aimed at improving overall system reliability and safeguarding.
The 4.8.8 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.8.8 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. ---- The 4.8.7 kernel rebase contains new hardware support, additional features, and a number of important bug fixes across the tree.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora security fix kernel system stability

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1393904 - CVE-2016-8645 kernel: a BUG() statement can be hit in net/ipv4/tcp_input.c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1393904 [ 2 ] Bug #1393350 - CVE-2016-8630 kernel: kvm: x86: NULL pointer dereference during instruction decode https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1393350 [ 3 ] Bug #1389259 - CVE-2016-9084 kernel: Integer overflow when using kzalloc in vfio driver https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1389259 [ 4 ] Bug #1389258 - CVE-2016-9083 kernel: State machine confusion bug in vfio driver leading to memory corruption https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1389258

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: 4.8.8
Release: 100.fc23
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora security fix kernel system stability

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