[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: kernel-4.2.8-300.fc23

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-c59710b05d
2015-12-22 17:48:56.351652
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Name        : kernel
Product     : Fedora 23
Version     : 4.2.8
Release     : 300.fc23
URL         : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary     : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel meta package

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Update Information:

The 4.2.8 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the
tree.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1282688 - CVE-2013-7446 kernel: Unix sockets use after free - peer_wait_queue prematurely freed
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1282688
  [ 2 ] Bug #1291329 - kernel: Permission bypass on overlayfs during copy_up
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291329
  [ 3 ] Bug #1291197 - CVE-2015-7550 kernel: User triggerable crash from race between key read and rey revoke
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291197
  [ 4 ] Bug #1290475 - CVE-2015-8543 kernel: IPv6 connect causes DoS via NULL pointer dereference
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1290475
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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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