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Fedora 25 Kernel Update 2017-93dec9eba5 Critical Out-of-Bounds Issues

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Calendar Grey April 3, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest kernel patch for Fedora 25 provides essential improvements, tackling key issues such as out-of-bounds memory access vulnerabilities and additional enhancements.
The 4.10.8 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 4.10.8 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical Fedora kernel system update out-of-bounds

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1435153 - CVE-2017-7184 kernel: Out-of-bounds heap access in xfrm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1435153 [ 2 ] Bug #1436629 - CVE-2017-7277 kernel: Mishandling SCM_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS feature causes out-of-bounds read https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436629 [ 3 ] Bug #1435719 - CVE-2017-7261 kernel: drm/vmwgfx: check that number of mip levels is above zero https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1435719

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: 4.10.8
Release: 200.fc25
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical Fedora kernel system update out-of-bounds

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