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Fedora 24: 2017-E75602D3ED Critical: Kernel Security Update

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Calendar Grey May 23, 2017
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The Fedora 24 system receives an update to Kernel 4.10.16 which resolves severe security vulnerabilities and includes essential patches throughout the ecosystem.
The 4.10.16 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 4.10.16 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

[ 1 ] Bug #1447734 - CVE-2017-7487 kernel: Reference counter leak in ipxitf_ioctl resulting into use after free

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1447734

su -c 'dnf upgrade kernel' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 24
Version: 4.10.16
Release: 100.fc24
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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