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Fedora 24 Kernel Update: Critical Fix for Stack Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey April 17, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest software upgrades in Ubuntu 20 include essential patches aimed at enhancing user protection, overall system reliability, and operational efficiency.
The 4.5.1 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.5.1 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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Topics Covered

security advisory kernel update Fedora critical fix stack overflow

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1324749 - CVE-2016-3672 kernel: unlimiting the stack disables ASLR https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324749

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: 4.5.1
Release: 300.fc24
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory kernel update Fedora critical fix stack overflow

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