-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-23959 2013-12-25 01:41:39 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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The 3.12.6 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Mon Dec 23 2013 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@fedoraproject.org - 3.12.6-300 - Linux v3.12.6 * Fri Dec 20 2013 Josh Boyer jwboyer@fedoraproject.org - Add patches to fix dummy gssd entry (rhbz 1037793) * Wed Dec 18 2013 Josh Boyer jwboyer@fedoraproject.org - Fix nowatchdog-on-virt.patch to actually work in KVM guests * Tue Dec 17 2013 Josh Boyer jwboyer@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@fedoraproject.org - Fix host lockup in bridge code when starting from virt guest (rhbz 1025770) * Fri Dec 13 2013 Josh Boyer jwboyer@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@fedoraproject.org - 3.12.5-300 - Linux v3.12.5 rebase * Thu Dec 12 2013 Josh Boyer jwboyer@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@fedoraproject.org - Add patches to support ETPS/2 Elantech touchpads (rhbz 1030802) * Tue Dec 10 2013 Josh Boyer jwboyer@fedoraproject.org - CVE-2013-XXXX net: memory leak in recvmsg (rhbz 1039845 1039874) * Fri Dec 6 2013 Peter Robinson pbrobinson@fedoraproject.org - Fix up ARM usb gadget config to make it useful -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1037793 - Missing info file in dummy gssd entry in rpc_pipefs https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037793 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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