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Fedora 25: FEDORA-2017-17d1c05236 Critical: Kernel Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 2, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Significant kernel patch released for Fedora 25, targeting essential stability enhancements and security vulnerabilities, including references to known exploits.
The 4.10.13 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 4.10.13 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

[ 1 ] Bug #1445207 - CVE-2017-7477 kernel: net: Heap overflow in skb_to_sgvec in macsec.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1445207

[ 2 ] Bug #1389433 - CVE-2016-9604 kernel: security: The built-in keyrings for security tokens can be joined as a session and then modified by the root user

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1389433

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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 4.10.13
Release: 200.fc25
Summary: The Linux kernel

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