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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-16448
2014-12-06 09:21:29
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Name : kernel
Product : Fedora 21
Version : 3.17.4
Release : 302.fc21
URL : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel meta package

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Update Information:

Small bugfix update. A few AArch64 fixes and a patch to quiet a common i915 warning.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Dec 4 2014 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@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@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@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 #1170691 – CVE-2014-9090 kernel: espfix64: local DoS via do_double_fault() due to improper handling of faults associated with SS segment register
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170691
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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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