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Ubuntu Bionic: Security Update for Linux Kernel Privilege Elevation in 2018

fedora
Calendar Grey October 22, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest kernel update in Fedora 24 brings significant security improvements, tackling issues such as CVE-2016-5195 which is related to privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
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. ---- The 4.7.8 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora privilege escalation security fix kernel

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 .

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Name: kernel
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 4.7.9
Release: 200.fc24
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora privilege escalation security fix kernel

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