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Fedora 25: FEDORA-2016-6afdd2b61d Critical Kernel Update

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Calendar Grey December 5, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Crucial improvements featured in the Fedora 25 kernel update enhance reliability and safeguard against vulnerabilities.
The 4.8.11 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.8.11 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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Topics Covered

security advisory kernel update critical Fedora security patch important fix

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1395187 - CVE-2016-8650 kernel: Null pointer dereference via keyctl https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1395187

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

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Name: kernel
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 4.8.11
Release: 300.fc25
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory kernel update critical Fedora security patch important fix

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