[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: kernel-3.18.3-201.fc21

Mon Jan 26 02:31:22 UTC 2015

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-0937
2015-01-20 20:11:26
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Name        : kernel
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 3.18.3
Release     : 201.fc21
URL         : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary     : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel meta package

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Update Information:

The 3.18.3 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. The 201 build should also fix most of the i915 issues seen in testing on 3.18.2-200
The 3.18.2 kernel rebase contains several new features as well as several fixes across the tree.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jan 19 2015 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at fedoraproject.org> - 3.18.3-201
- Add fixes from 3.18.4 queue to fix i915 issues (rhbz 1183232)
- xhci: Check if slot is already in default state before moving it there (rhbz 1183289)
* Fri Jan 16 2015 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at fedoraproject.org> - 3.18.3-200
- Linux v3.18.3
* Thu Jan 15 2015 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at fedoraproject.org>
- Build fixes for big-endian arches
* Tue Jan 13 2015 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at fedoraproject.org> - 3.18.2-200
- Linux v3.18.2
* Mon Jan 12 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- CVE-2014-9585 ASLR brute-force possible for vdso (rhbz 1181054 1181056)
- Backlight fixes for Samsung and Dell machines (rhbz 1094948 1115713 1163574)
- Add various UAS quirks (rhbz 1124119)
- Add patch to fix loop in VDSO (rhbz 1178975)
* Thu Jan  8 2015 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at fedoraproject.org> - 3.17.8-300
- Linux v3.17.8
* Wed Jan  7 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- CVE-2014-9529 memory corruption or panic during key gc (rhbz 1179813 1179853)
- Enable POWERCAP and INTEL_RAPL
* Tue Jan  6 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- CVE-2014-9419 partial ASLR bypass through TLS base addr leak (rhbz 1177260 1177263)
- CVE-2014-9428 remote DoS via batman-adv (rhbz 1178826 1178833)
- Fix CIFS login issue (rhbz 1163927)
* Mon Dec 29 2014 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- Enable F2FS (rhbz 972446)
* Thu Dec 18 2014 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- CVE-2014-8989 userns can bypass group restrictions (rhbz 1170684 1170688)
- Fix dm-cache crash (rhbz 1168434)
- Fix blk-mq crash on CPU hotplug (rhbz 1175261)
* Wed Dec 17 2014 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- Enable USBIP in modules-extra from Johnathan Dieter (rhbz 1169478)
- CVE-2014-XXXX isofs: infinite loop in CE record entries (rhbz 1175235 1175250)
* Tue Dec 16 2014 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- Linux v3.17.7
- CVE-2014-8559 deadlock due to incorrect usage of rename_lock (rhbz 1159313 1173814)
- Add patch from Josh Stone to restore var-tracking via Kconfig (rhbz 1126580)
* Mon Dec 15 2014 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- Fix ppc64 boot with smt-enabled=off (rhbz 1173806)
- CVE-2014-8133 x86: espfix(64) bypass via set_thread_area and CLONE_SETTLS (rhbz 1172797 1174374)
* Fri Dec 12 2014 Kyle McMartin <kyle at fedoraproject.org>
- build in ahci_platform on aarch64 temporarily.
* Fri Dec 12 2014 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- Remove pointless warning in cfg80211 (rhbz 1172543)
* Wed Dec 10 2014 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- Fix MSI issues on another Samsung pci-e SSD (rhbz 1084928)
- Fix UAS crashes with Seagate and Fresco Logic drives (rhbz 1164945)
- CVE-2014-8134 fix espfix for 32-bit KVM paravirt guests (rhbz 1172765 1172769)
* Mon Dec  8 2014 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at fedoraproject.org> - 3.17.6-300
- Linux v3.17.6
* Fri Dec  5 2014 Kyle McMartin <kyle at fedoraproject.org> - 3.17.4-303
- arm64-fix-xgene_enet_process_ring.patch: fix a panic under load.
* Thu Dec  4 2014 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> - 3.17.4-302
- CVE-2014-9090 local DoS via do_double_fault due to improper SS faults (rhbz 1170691)
* Thu Dec  4 2014 Kyle McMartin <kyle at fedoraproject.org>
- kernel-arm64.patch: update.
- arm64-force-serial-to-be-active-consdev.patch: force serial consoles
  to be the primary console device instead of defaulting to tty0. No
  changes to drivers outside of ARM-land.
- arm64-vgic-error-to-info.patch: change an error to a warning so that
  kvm will work.
* Mon Dec  1 2014 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- Add patch to quiet i915 driver on long hdps
- Add patch to fix oops when using xpad (rhbz 1094048)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1181054 - CVE-2014-9585 kernel: ASLR bruteforce possible for vdso library
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181054
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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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