Fedora 23: Critical AMD IOMMU Fixes Released on 2016-7e12ae5359
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February 28, 2016
This is an incremental update over 4.4.2-300 which contains two fixes fix for AMD IOMMU warnings use after free in USB ---- The 4.4.2 update contains a number of important updates ...
Summary
The kernel meta package
Update Information:
This is an incremental update over 4.4.2-300 which contains two fixes fix for AMD IOMMU warnings use after free in USB ---- The 4.4.2 update contains a number of important updates across the kernel tree.
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1303532 - CVE-2015-8812 kernel: CXGB3: Logic bug in return code handling prematurely frees key structures causing Use after free or kernel panic.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1303532
[ 2 ] Bug #1308452 - CVE-2016-2383 kernel: incorrect branch fixups for eBPG allow arbitrary read
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1308452
[ 3 ] Bug #1308444 - CVE-2016-2384 kernel: double-free in usb-audio triggered by invalid USB descriptor
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1308444
[ 4 ] Bug #1305803 - CVE-2016-0617 kernel: hugetlbfs: fix bugs in hugetlb_vmtruncate_list()
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1305803
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: 4.4.2
Release: 301.fc23
Summary: The Linux kernel
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