-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-6344 2012-04-21 20:58:08 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : kernel Product : Fedora 17 Version : 3.3.2 Release : 8.fc17 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fixes CVEs: CVE-2012-2119 CVE-2012-2123 CVE-2012-2121 Also fixes some fail to boot issues on various Dell machines. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #814149 - CVE-2012-2121 kvm: device assignment page leak https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814149 [ 2 ] Bug #814278 - CVE-2012-2119 kernel: macvtap: zerocopy: vector length is not validated before pinning user pages https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814278 [ 3 ] Bug #806722 - CVE-2012-2123 kernel: fcaps: clear the same personality flags as suid when fcaps are used https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806722 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
