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Fedora 23 Kernel: 2016-8e858f96b8 Critical: Kernel Update Fixes

fedora
Calendar Grey April 19, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
System upgrade 5.12.3 for Ubuntu 20.04 introduces vital improvements, targeting stability issues and boosting protection features.
The 4.4.7 update contains a number of important fixes across the kernel tree

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.4.7 update contains a number of important fixes across the kernel tree

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora kernel filesystem crash ASLR

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1324782 - CVE-2016-3951 kernel: crash on invalid USB device descriptors (usbnet driver) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324782 [ 2 ] Bug #1323577 - CVE-2015-8839 kernel: ext4 filesystem page fault race condition with fallocate call. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1323577 [ 3 ] Bug #1324749 - CVE-2016-3672 kernel: unlimiting the stack disables ASLR https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324749

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: 4.4.7
Release: 300.fc23
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora kernel filesystem crash ASLR

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