Fedora 25: Critical Fix for Kernel Privilege Escalation Issue
fedora
October 22, 2016
The 4.8.3 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree
Summary
The kernel meta package
Update Information:
The 4.8.3 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. In particular, it includes a fix for CVE-2016-5195.
Topics Covered
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1384344 - CVE-2016-5195 kernel: mm: privilege escalation via MAP_PRIVATE COW breakage
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384344
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 25
Version: 4.8.3
Release: 300.fc25
Summary: The Linux kernel
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