[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: kernel-3.9.5-301.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-10689
2013-06-12 18:39:15
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Name        : kernel
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 3.9.5
Release     : 301.fc19
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:

Update to latest upstream stable release, Linux v3.9.5.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #971146 - CVE-2013-2140 kernel: xen: blkback: insufficient permission checks for BLKIF_OP_DISCARD
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=971146
  [ 2 ] Bug #971242 - CVE-2013-2147 Kernel: cpqarray/cciss: information leak via ioctl
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=971242
  [ 3 ] Bug #971258 - CVE-2013-2148 Kernel: fanotify: info leak in copy_event_to_user
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=971258
  [ 4 ] Bug #969518 - CVE-2013-2852 kernel: b43: format string leaking into error msgs
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=969518
  [ 5 ] Bug #969515 - CVE-2013-2851 kernel: block: passing disk names as format strings
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=969515
  [ 6 ] Bug #973100 - CVE-2013-2164 Kernel: information leak in cdrom driver
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=973100
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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/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
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