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Fedora 24 Kernel Update: 4.9.9 Critical Issues Advisory

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Calendar Grey February 13, 2017
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Fedora 24 has rolled out a kernel update that rectifies significant vulnerabilities and incorporates essential enhancements found in the 4.9.9 version.
The 4.9.9

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The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.9.9. update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1419848 - CVE-2017-5897 kernel: ip6_gre: Invalid reads in ip6gre_err https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1419848 [ 2 ] Bug #1420276 - kernel: Reachable BUG_ON from userspace in sctp_wait_for_sndbuf https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1420276

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: 4.9.9
Release: 100.fc24
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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