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Fedora 23 Kernel Update: CVE-2016-5195 Moderate Privilege Escalation Fix

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Calendar Grey October 23, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Key improvements in the latest Fedora kernel revision bolster security and tackle significant vulnerabilities. Keep updated and ensure your system is secure.
The 4.7.9 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.7.9 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. In particular, it includes a fix for CVE-2016-5195.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory kernel update Fedora privilege escalation CVE fix

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1384344 - CVE-2016-5195 kernel: mm: privilege escalation via MAP_PRIVATE COW breakage https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384344

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 .

Name: kernel
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 4.7.9
Release: 100.fc23
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory kernel update Fedora privilege escalation CVE fix

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