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Fedora 24: 2016-5ec2475e3f Critical: Kernel 4.8.12 Memory Access Issue

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Calendar Grey December 10, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Kernel 4.8.12 stable release resolves significant vulnerabilities in Fedora 24, boosting both security and system efficiency.
The 4.8.12 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.8.12 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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Topics Covered

security advisory kernel update Fedora memory access system performance

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1400804 - CVE-2016-9777 Kernel: kvm: out of bounds memory access via vcpu_id https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400804 [ 2 ] Bug #1400468 - CVE-2016-9756 Kernel: kvm: stack memory information leakage https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400468 [ 3 ] Bug #1400904 - CVE-2016-9755 kernel: netfilter: Out-of-bounds write due to a signedness issue when defragmenting ipv6 packets https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400904

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use 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

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Name: kernel
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 4.8.12
Release: 200.fc24
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory kernel update Fedora memory access system performance

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