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Fedora 23: Kernel Update 4.2.8 Critical for Denial of Service Risks

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Calendar Grey December 22, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Explore the latest updates in Ubuntu 15.10's 3.19.0 kernel, featuring essential security patches and improved system efficiency.
The 4.2.8 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.2.8 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora kernel Denial of Service Permission Bypass

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1282688 - CVE-2013-7446 kernel: Unix sockets use after free - peer_wait_queue prematurely freed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1282688 [ 2 ] Bug #1291329 - kernel: Permission bypass on overlayfs during copy_up https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291329 [ 3 ] Bug #1291197 - CVE-2015-7550 kernel: User triggerable crash from race between key read and rey revoke https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291197 [ 4 ] Bug #1290475 - CVE-2015-8543 kernel: IPv6 connect causes DoS via NULL pointer dereference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1290475

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: 4.2.8
Release: 300.fc23
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora kernel Denial of Service Permission Bypass

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