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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-c8a0c7eece
2016-10-22 12:50:28.473730
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Name : kernel
Product : Fedora 25
Version : 4.8.3
Release : 300.fc25
URL :
http://www.kernel.org/
Summary : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel meta package
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Update Information:
The 4.8.3 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. In
particular, it includes a fix for CVE-2016-5195.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1384344 - CVE-2016-5195 kernel: mm: privilege escalation via MAP_PRIVATE COW
breakage
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384344
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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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