[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: kernel-3.17.2-300.fc21

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-14126
2014-11-01 15:24:06
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Name        : kernel
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 3.17.2
Release     : 300.fc21
URL         : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary     : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel meta package

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Update Information:

Linux v3.17.2.  A wide variety of fixes across the tree.
Even more KVM CVE fixes
CVE fixes for KVM and SCTP.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1144883 - CVE-2014-3610 kernel: kvm: noncanonical MSR writes
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144883
  [ 2 ] Bug #1156615 - CVE-2014-8480 CVE-2014-8481 kernel: kvm: NULL pointer dereference during rip relative instruction emulation
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156615
  [ 3 ] Bug #1156518 - CVE-2014-8369 kernel: kvm: excessive pages un-pinning in kvm_iommu_map error path
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156518
  [ 4 ] Bug #1144825 - CVE-2014-3646 kernel: kvm: vmx: invvpid vm exit not handled
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144825
  [ 5 ] Bug #1144878 - CVE-2014-3611 kernel: kvm: PIT timer race condition
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144878
  [ 6 ] Bug #1153322 - CVE-2014-3690 kernel: kvm: vmx: invalid host cr4 handling across vm entries
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153322
  [ 7 ] Bug #1155745 - CVE-2014-3688 kernel: net: sctp: remote memory pressure from excessive queueing
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155745
  [ 8 ] Bug #1155731 - CVE-2014-3687 kernel: net: sctp: fix panic on duplicate ASCONF chunks
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155731
  [ 9 ] Bug #1147850 - CVE-2014-3673 kernel: sctp: skb_over_panic when receiving malformed ASCONF chunks
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147850
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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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