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Fedora 24: FEDORA-2016-96d276367e Critical: Kernel Fixes for Memory Issues

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Calendar Grey November 7, 2016
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A critical patch for Fedora 24's kernel has been released, focusing on vulnerabilities such as memory corruption and integer overflow.
The 4.8.6 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.8.6 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora memory corruption critical fix kernel integer overflow

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1389259 - CVE-2016-9084 kernel: Integer overflow when using kzalloc in vfio driver https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1389259 [ 2 ] Bug #1389258 - CVE-2016-9083 kernel: State machine confusion bug in vfio driver leading to memory corruption https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1389258

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: 4.8.6
Release: 201.fc24
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora memory corruption critical fix kernel integer overflow

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