Fedora 25 Kernel: 2017-7a3ddf2484 Critical Buffer Overflow

The kernel meta package

The 4.12.14 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

[ 1 ] Bug #1492593 - CVE-2017-14497 kernel: buffer overflow in tpacket_rcv() in net/packet/af_packet.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492593

[ 2 ] Bug #1493435 - kernel: NULL pointer dereference due to KEYCTL_READ on negative key

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1493435

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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