[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: kernel-4.2.6-300.fc23
updates at fedoraproject.org
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Thu Nov 19 10:05:31 UTC 2015
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-115c302856
2015-11-19 08:18:45.207983
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Name : kernel
Product : Fedora 23
Version : 4.2.6
Release : 300.fc23
URL : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel meta package
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Update Information:
The 4.2.6 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.
kernel-4.2.6-300.fc23 - Fix incorrect size calculations in megaraid with 64K
pages (rhbz 1269300) - CVE-2015-8104 kvm: DoS infinite loop in microcode DB
exception (rhbz 1278496 1279691) - CVE-2015-5307 kvm: DoS infinite loop in
microcode AC exception (rhbz 1277172 1279688)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1278496 - CVE-2015-8104 virt: guest to host DoS by triggering an infinite loop in microcode via #DB exception
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1278496
[ 2 ] Bug #1277172 - CVE-2015-5307 virt: guest to host DoS by triggering an infinite loop in microcode via #AC exception
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1277172
[ 3 ] Bug #1271134 - CVE-2015-7799 kernel: net: slip: crash when using PPP character device driver
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1271134
[ 4 ] Bug #1276437 - CVE-2015-7990 kernel: Race condition when sending message on unbound socket causing NULL pointer dereference
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1276437
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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 https://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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