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Fedora: 2016-12-09 Security Advisory: Kernel Memory Access Issues

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Calendar Grey December 9, 2016
Scroller Fedora Esm H88
The software patch released for Fedora 25 resolves significant vulnerabilities involving unauthorized memory access and data exposure risk.
The 4.8.12 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.8.12 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora security fix kernel system update memory access information leakage

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1400804 - CVE-2016-9777 Kernel: kvm: out of bounds memory access via vcpu_id https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400804 [ 2 ] Bug #1400468 - CVE-2016-9756 Kernel: kvm: stack memory information leakage https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400468 [ 3 ] Bug #1400904 - CVE-2016-9755 kernel: netfilter: Out-of-bounds write due to a signedness issue when defragmenting ipv6 packets https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400904

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: 4.8.12
Release: 300.fc25
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora security fix kernel system update memory access information leakage

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