Name : kernel Product : Fedora 21 Version : 3.17.8 Release : 300.fc21 URL : http://www.kernel.org/ Summary : The Linux kernel Description : The kernel meta package
The 3.17.8 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ChangeLog:
* Thu Jan 8 2015 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@fedoraproject.org> - 3.17.8-300 - Linux v3.17.8 * Wed Jan 7 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@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@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@fedoraproject.org> - Enable F2FS (rhbz 972446) * Thu Dec 18 2014 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@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@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@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@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@fedoraproject.org> - build in ahci_platform on aarch64 temporarily. * Fri Dec 12 2014 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> - Remove pointless warning in cfg80211 (rhbz 1172543) * Wed Dec 10 2014 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@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@fedoraproject.org> - 3.17.6-300 - Linux v3.17.6 * Fri Dec 5 2014 Kyle McMartin <kyle@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@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) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - References:
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/.