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Fedora 23 Kernel Security Update - Critical Fixes for Various Issues

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Calendar Grey January 26, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest kernel security patch for Fedora 23 brings essential bug corrections and enhancements sourced from upstream releases.
Backported i915, networking, and nouveau fixes tagged for stable from 4.4 upstream

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

Backported i915, networking, and nouveau fixes tagged for stable from 4.4 upstream. Assorted fixes elsewhere. ---- A few bug fixes and backports of all the i915 patches queued for stable from 4.4. ---- A number of fixes across the tree

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora bug fix DoS kernel network i915

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1297475 - CVE-2016-0728 kernel: Possible use-after-free vulnerability in keyring facility https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1297475 [ 2 ] Bug #1296466 - CVE-2015-7566 kernel: Crash on invalid USB device descriptors in visor driver https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296466 [ 3 ] Bug #1284847 - CVE-2015-7513 Kernel: kvm: divide by zero issue leads to DoS https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284847

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: 4.3.3
Release: 303.fc23
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora bug fix DoS kernel network i915

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