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Fedora 24: 2016-e5b72816d0 Critical: Kernel Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey December 16, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 24 has released a vital kernel update that resolves significant vulnerabilities, featuring a crucial fix for a buffer overflow issue. Make sure to update promptly!
The 4.8.14 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.8.14 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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security advisory buffer overflow critical software update Fedora kernel

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[ 1 ] Bug #1403833 - CVE-2016-8399 kernel: net: Out of bounds stack read in memcpy_fromiovec https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403833

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: 4.8.14
Release: 200.fc24
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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