Fedora 20 Update: kernel-3.12.6-300.fc20

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-23959
2013-12-25 01:41:39
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Name        : kernel
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 3.12.6
Release     : 300.fc20
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:

The 3.12.6 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Dec 23 2013 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at fedoraproject.org - 3.12.6-300
- Linux v3.12.6
* Fri Dec 20 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- Add patches to fix dummy gssd entry (rhbz 1037793)
* Wed Dec 18 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- Fix nowatchdog-on-virt.patch to actually work in KVM guests
* Tue Dec 17 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> - 3.12.5-302
- Add patch to avoid using queued trim on M500 SSD (rhbz 1024002)
* Mon Dec 16 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- Fix host lockup in bridge code when starting from virt guest (rhbz 1025770)
* Fri Dec 13 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> 3.12.5-301
- More keys fixes from upstream to fix keyctl_get_persisent crash (rhbz 1043033)
* Fri Dec 13 2013 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at fedoraproject.org - 3.12.5-300
- Linux v3.12.5 rebase
* Thu Dec 12 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- CVE-2013-4587 kvm: out-of-bounds access (rhbz 1030986 1042071)
- CVE-2013-6376 kvm: BUG_ON in apic_cluster_id (rhbz 1033106 1042099)
- CVE-2013-6368 kvm: cross page vapic_addr access (rhbz 1032210 1042090)
- CVE-2013-6367 kvm: division by 0 in apic_get_tmcct (rhbz 1032207 1042081)
* Wed Dec 11 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- Add patches to support ETPS/2 Elantech touchpads (rhbz 1030802)
* Tue Dec 10 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- CVE-2013-XXXX net: memory leak in recvmsg (rhbz 1039845 1039874)
* Fri Dec  6 2013 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at fedoraproject.org>
- Fix up ARM usb gadget config to make it useful
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1037793 - Missing info file in dummy gssd entry in rpc_pipefs
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037793
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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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