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Fedora 23: 2016-e6cfaff4b1 Critical: Kernel & XFS Updates

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Calendar Grey March 11, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest kernel security patch for Fedora 23 brings crucial bug fixes along with improvements to XFS utility programs.
The 4.4.4 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.4.4 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. This also includes an important update for XFS utils.

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security advisory critical Fedora kernel system update security issues XFS utilities

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1314253 - kernel: Partial SMAP bypass on 64-bit Linux kernels https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314253 [ 2 ] Bug #1313428 - CVE-2016-2847 kernel: pipe: limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313428

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: 4.4.4
Release: 301.fc23
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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security advisory critical Fedora kernel system update security issues XFS utilities

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