Fedora alert FEDORA-2014-16448 (kernel)
| From: | updates@fedoraproject.org | |
| To: | package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: kernel-3.17.4-302.fc21 | |
| Date: | Fri, 12 Dec 2014 04:06:43 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <20141212040706.86B1960C79A2@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2014-16448 2014-12-06 09:21:29 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : kernel Product : Fedora 21 Version : 3.17.4 Release : 302.fc21 URL : http://www.kernel.org/ Summary : The Linux kernel Description : The kernel meta package -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Small bugfix update. A few AArch64 fixes and a patch to quiet a common i915 warning. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Dec 4 2014 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> - 3.17.4-302 - CVE-2014-9090 local DoS via do_double_fault due to improper SS faults (rhbz 1170691) * Thu Dec 4 2014 Kyle McMartin <kyle@fedoraproject.org> - kernel-arm64.patch: update. - arm64-force-serial-to-be-active-consdev.patch: force serial consoles to be the primary console device instead of defaulting to tty0. No changes to drivers outside of ARM-land. - arm64-vgic-error-to-info.patch: change an error to a warning so that kvm will work. * Mon Dec 1 2014 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> - Add patch to quiet i915 driver on long hdps - Add patch to fix oops when using xpad (rhbz 1094048) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1170691 - CVE-2014-9090 kernel: espfix64: local DoS via do_double_fault() due to improper handling of faults associated with SS segment register https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170691 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...