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Fedora 23 Kernel Update 4.2.2 Critical: USB Driver Denial of Service

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The Fedora 23 kernel patch introduces vital improvements and security enhancements aimed at addressing significant vulnerabilities while ensuring overall system reliability.
The 4.2.2 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.2.2 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. kernel-4.2.2-300.fc23 - Linux v4.2.2

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora DoS kernel USB driver

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1265607 - CVE-2015-5257 kernel: NULL pointer dereference in USB WhiteHEAT serial driver https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265607

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: 4.2.2
Release: 300.fc23
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora DoS kernel USB driver

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