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Fedora 24: 2016-7f37d42add Moderate Risk of Kernel Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey April 23, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade Fedora 24 kernel to version 4.5.2 to address crucial issues and enhance boot performance on i686 architectures.
The 4.5.2 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.5.2 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. This build should also boot on some of the i686 systems that would not boot before.

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora buffer overflow moderate severity update information kernel system crash

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1328478 - CVE-2016-3955 Kernel: usbip: buffer overflow by trusting length of incoming packets https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1328478 [ 2 ] Bug #1323956 - CVE-2016-3961 xsa174 xen: hugetlbfs use may crash PV Linux guests (XSA-174) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1323956

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: 4.5.2
Release: 301.fc24
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora buffer overflow moderate severity update information kernel system crash

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