[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: kernel-4.2.7-300.fc23

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-ac9a19888e
2015-12-16 14:34:46.182332
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Name        : kernel
Product     : Fedora 23
Version     : 4.2.7
Release     : 300.fc23
URL         : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary     : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel meta package

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Update Information:

The 4.2.7 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1285326 - CVE-2015-7515 kernel: aiptek: crash on invalid USB device descriptors
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285326
  [ 2 ] Bug #1270158 - CVE-2015-7833 kernel: usbvision: crash on invalid USB device descriptors
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270158
  [ 3 ] Bug #1286261 - CVE-2015-8374 kernel: Information leak when truncating of compressed/inlined extents on BTRFS
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1286261
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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
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