[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: kernel-3.17.3-300.fc21

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-15159
2014-11-16 13:38:29
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Name        : kernel
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 3.17.3
Release     : 300.fc21
URL         : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary     : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel meta package

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Update Information:

Latest upstream stable release, Linux v3.17.3.  A wide variety of fixes across the tree.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1163744 - CVE-2014-7843 kernel: aarch64: copying from /dev/zero causes local DoS
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163744
  [ 2 ] Bug #1163762 - CVE-2014-7842 kernel: kvm: reporting emulation failures to userspace
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163762
  [ 3 ] Bug #1163087 - CVE-2014-7841 kernel: net: sctp: NULL pointer dereference in af->from_addr_param on malformed packet
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163087
  [ 4 ] Bug #1161565 - CVE-2014-7825 CVE-2014-7826 kernel: insufficient syscall number validation in perf and ftrace subsystems
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1161565
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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 http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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