[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: kernel-4.4.7-300.fc23

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-8e858f96b8
2016-04-19 15:33:08.455402
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Name        : kernel
Product     : Fedora 23
Version     : 4.4.7
Release     : 300.fc23
URL         : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary     : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel meta package

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Update Information:

The 4.4.7 update contains a number of important fixes across the kernel tree
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1324782 - CVE-2016-3951 kernel: crash on invalid USB device descriptors (usbnet driver)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324782
  [ 2 ] Bug #1323577 - CVE-2015-8839 kernel: ext4 filesystem page fault race condition with fallocate call.
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1323577
  [ 3 ] Bug #1324749 - CVE-2016-3672 kernel: unlimiting the stack disables ASLR
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324749
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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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