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Fedora 25: 2016-876deae183 Critical: Kernel Issue Resolution

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Calendar Grey November 19, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The updates to Fedora 25's kernel bring essential patches that rectify security flaws identified in prior releases.
The 4.8.7 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.8.7 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical Fedora bug fix kernel system patch

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1393350 - CVE-2016-8630 kernel: kvm: x86: NULL pointer dereference during instruction decode https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1393350

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: 4.8.7
Release: 300.fc25
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical Fedora bug fix kernel system patch

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