[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: kernel-3.9.4-301.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-10050
2013-06-05 01:57:03
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Name        : kernel
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 3.9.4
Release     : 301.fc19
URL         : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary     : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic functions
of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device
input and output, etc.

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Update Information:

Bugfix update to 3.9.4.  Fixes UEFI NVRAM space issues that prevented booting on some machines.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #968036 - CVE-2013-2850 kernel: iscsi-target: heap buffer overflow on large key error
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968036
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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/.

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