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Fedora 25: FEDORA-2016-02db2f32fd Moderate: Kernel Network Fix

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Calendar Grey December 16, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The 4.8.14 kernel upgrade for Fedora 25 introduces vital enhancements and security patches that aim to boost system performance and protect against potential vulnerabilities.
The 4.8.14 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.8.14 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue kernel update Fedora moderate severity network fix

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1403833 - CVE-2016-8399 kernel: net: Out of bounds stack read in memcpy_fromiovec https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403833

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use 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

Name: kernel
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 4.8.14
Release: 300.fc25
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue kernel update Fedora moderate severity network fix

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