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Fedora 23 Kernel Security Update - Critical Fixes for Various Issues

Backported i915, networking, and nouveau fixes tagged for stable from 4.4 upstream. Assorted fixes elsewhere. ---- A few bug fixes and backports of all the i915 patches queued for stable from 4.4. ---- A number of fixes across the tree. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-b59fd603be 2016-01-26 14:49:54.835420 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : kernel Product : Fedora 23 Version : 4.3.3 Release : 303.fc23 URL : https://www.kernel.org/ Summary : The Linux kernel Description : The kernel meta package -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Backported i915, networking, and nouveau fixes tagged for stable from 4.4 upstream. Assorted fixes elsewhere. ---- A few bug fixes and backports of all the i915 patches queued for stable from 4.4. ---- A number of fixes across the tree -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1297475 - CVE-2016-0728 kernel: Possible use-after-free vulnerability in keyring facility https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1297475 [ 2 ] Bug #1296466 - CVE-2015-7566 kernel: Crash on invalid USB device descriptors in visor driver https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296466 [ 3 ] Bug #1284847 - CVE-2015-7513 Kernel: kvm: divide by zero issue leads to DoS https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284847 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update kernel' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at . All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be foundat https://fedoraproject.org/security/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/package-announce.lists.fedoraproject.org/ . The latest kernel security patch for Fedora 23 brings essential bug corrections and enhancements sourced from upstream releases.. Fedora Kernel Update, Bug Fixes, Networking Enhancements. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Jan 26, 2016 Fedora