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Fedora 23: Kernel Security Update Critical Fixes and Bugs

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Calendar Grey December 16, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest kernel security patch for Fedora 23 resolves several critical vulnerabilities that could lead to system instability and potential data exposure.
The 4.2.7 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.2.7 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory information leak critical Fedora kernel bug fixes

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1285326 - CVE-2015-7515 kernel: aiptek: crash on invalid USB device descriptors https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285326 [ 2 ] Bug #1270158 - CVE-2015-7833 kernel: usbvision: crash on invalid USB device descriptors https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270158 [ 3 ] Bug #1286261 - CVE-2015-8374 kernel: Information leak when truncating of compressed/inlined extents on BTRFS https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1286261

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: 4.2.7
Release: 300.fc23
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory information leak critical Fedora kernel bug fixes

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