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kernel-4.2.6-300.fc23

FEDORA-2015-115c302856 created by jforbes 9 years ago for Fedora 23

The 4.2.6 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

kernel-4.2.6-300.fc23

  • Fix incorrect size calculations in megaraid with 64K pages (rhbz 1269300)
  • CVE-2015-8104 kvm: DoS infinite loop in microcode DB exception (rhbz 1278496 1279691)
  • CVE-2015-5307 kvm: DoS infinite loop in microcode AC exception (rhbz 1277172 1279688)

Reboot Required
After installing this update it is required that you reboot your system to ensure the changes supplied by this update are applied properly.

How to install

Updates may require up to 24 hours to propagate to mirrors. If the following command doesn't work, please retry later:

sudo dnf upgrade --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2015-115c302856

This update has been submitted for testing by jforbes.

9 years ago
User Icon hreindl commented & provided feedback 9 years ago
karma

works for me

This update has been pushed to testing.

9 years ago
User Icon yuwata commented & provided feedback 9 years ago
karma

works for me

User Icon jrimpo commented & provided feedback 9 years ago
karma

I'm unable to boot with this kernel, while 4.2.5 works fine...

At boot, I'm seeing: i915 0000:00:02.0: registered panic notifier

User Icon jrimpo provided feedback 9 years ago
karma
User Icon jrimpo commented & provided feedback 9 years ago

My problem may be related to the recent mdadm update, though that hasn't caused problems with the previous kernel. The system was unable to mount my LVM partitions - which are also on firmware raid which also appears to have not mounted properly.

User Icon jforbes commented & provided feedback 9 years ago

Have you filed a bug for these?

User Icon jrimpo commented & provided feedback 9 years ago

No, I'll get on that.

User Icon jrimpo commented & provided feedback 9 years ago
User Icon rharwood provided feedback 9 years ago
karma
User Icon bojan commented & provided feedback 9 years ago
karma

Works on a couple x86_64 machines. Bugs #1083853, #1263354 still present, but not regressions.

User Icon bojan commented & provided feedback 9 years ago
karma

Actually, I'm going to change that to -1. Regression on ThinkPad T450s. See bug #1281616.

User Icon renault commented & provided feedback 9 years ago
karma

Great on my Dell Precision M4800

User Icon mooninite commented & provided feedback 9 years ago
karma

Works fine on Ivy Bridge hardware, HD4000 graphics. Works fine on Haswell hardware, Iris 5100 graphics.

User Icon williamjmorenor commented & provided feedback 9 years ago
karma

boot and daily work is fine for me

User Icon cserpentis commented & provided feedback 9 years ago
karma

works for me

User Icon dhgutteridge commented & provided feedback 9 years ago
karma

Working fine for me on my Lenovo E531.

User Icon besser82 commented & provided feedback 9 years ago
karma

LGTM =)

User Icon akurtakov commented & provided feedback 9 years ago
karma

works for me

User Icon jpopelka commented & provided feedback 9 years ago
karma

no problems spotted

User Icon johnp117 commented & provided feedback 9 years ago
karma

wfm

User Icon bitlord commented & provided feedback 9 years ago
karma

works fine for me

User Icon joyrida08 commented & provided feedback 9 years ago
karma

No Issues

User Icon nonamedotc commented & provided feedback 9 years ago
karma

works fine for me.

This update has been submitted for stable by jforbes.

9 years ago

This update has been pushed to stable.

9 years ago

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Metadata
Type
security
Karma
13
Signed
Content Type
RPM
Test Gating
Autopush Settings
Unstable by Karma
-3
Stable by Karma
disabled
Stable by Time
disabled
Dates
submitted
9 years ago
in testing
9 years ago
in stable
9 years ago
BZ#1249424 Please move iscsi modules to kernel-core
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BZ#1257131 System reboots after shutdown
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BZ#1269300 Fedora 23 Install Issue on PPC64LE Server with Avago RAID card
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BZ#1271134 CVE-2015-7799 kernel: net: slip: crash when using PPP character device driver
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BZ#1271135 CVE-2015-7799 kernel: net: slip: crash when using PPP character device driver [fedora-all]
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BZ#1276437 CVE-2015-7990 kernel: Race condition when sending message on unbound socket causing NULL pointer dereference
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BZ#1276438 CVE-2015-7990 kernel: Race condition when sending message on unbound socket causing NULL pointer dereference [fedora-all]
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BZ#1277172 CVE-2015-5307 virt: guest to host DoS by triggering an infinite loop in microcode via #AC exception
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BZ#1278407 Display backlight shuts off with kernel 4.2.5
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BZ#1278496 CVE-2015-8104 virt: guest to host DoS by triggering an infinite loop in microcode via #DB exception
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BZ#1279688 CVE-2015-5307 kernel: kvm: guest to host DoS by triggering an infinite loop in microcode via #AC exception [fedora-all]
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BZ#1279691 CVE-2015-8104 kernel: kvm: guest to host DoS by triggering an infinite loop in microcode via #DB exception [fedora-all]
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Automated Test Results

Test Cases

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