Fedora 25: 2017-73f71456d7 Critical Kernel Update: Memory Corruption Fix

The kernel meta package

The 4.12.8 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree. ---- The 4.12.5 kernel rebase contains new features and many bug fixes

across the tree.

[ 1 ] Bug #1477656 - CVE-2017-12134 xsa229 xen: linux: Fix Xen block IO merge-ability calculation (XSA-229)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477656

[ 2 ] Bug #1479304 - CVE-2017-1000111 kernel: Heap out-of-bounds in AF_PACKET sockets

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1479304

[ 3 ] Bug #1479307 - CVE-2017-1000112 kernel: Exploitable memory corruption due to UFO to non-UFO path switch

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1479307

[ 4 ] Bug #1468283 - CVE-2017-7533 kernel: a race between inotify_handle_event() and sys_rename()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1468283

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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