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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-10677
2015-06-25 06:00:33
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Name : kernel
Product : Fedora 22
Version : 4.0.6
Release : 300.fc22
URL : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel meta package

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Update Information:

The 4.0.6 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jun 23 2015 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@fedoraproject.org> – 4.0.6-300
– Linux v4.0.6
* Thu Jun 18 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
– Add patch to fix touchpad issues on Razer machines (rhbz 1227891)
* Fri Jun 12 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
– CVE-2015-XXXX kvm: NULL ptr deref in kvm_apic_has_events (rhbz 1230770 1230774)
* Thu Jun 11 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
– Backport fixes for synaptic 3 finger tap (rhbz 1212230)
– Backport btrfs fixes queued for stable (rhbz 1217191)
* Tue Jun 9 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
– Fix touchpad for Thinkpad S540 (rhbz 1223051)
* Mon Jun 8 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
– Linux v4.0.5
* Thu Jun 4 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
– Backport commit to fix block spew (rhbz 1226621)
– Add patch to fix SMT guests on POWER7 (rhbz 1227877)
– Add patch to turn of WC mmaps on i915 from airlied (rhbz 1226743)
* Wed Jun 3 2015 Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
– Fix del_timer_sync in mwifiex
* Wed Jun 3 2015 Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
– Drop that blasted firwmare warning until we get a real fix (rhbz 1133378)
* Wed Jun 3 2015 Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
– Fix auditing of canonical mode (rhbz 1188695)
* Wed Jun 3 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
– CVE-2015-1420 fhandle race condition (rhbz 1187534 1227417)
* Tue Jun 2 2015 Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
– Fix fd_do_rw error (rhbz 1218882)
* Tue Jun 2 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
– Fix middle button issues on external Lenovo keyboards (rhbz 1225563)
* Thu May 28 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
– Add quirk for Mac Pro backlight (rhbz 1217249)
* Thu May 28 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> – 4.0.4-303
– Add patch to avoid vmmouse being classified as a joystic (rhbz 1214474)
* Wed May 27 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> -4.0.4-302
– Apply queued fixes for crasher reported by Alex Larsson
– Enable in-kernel vmmouse driver (rhbz 1214474)
* Tue May 26 2015 Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
– Fix signed division error (rhbz 1200353)
* Tue May 26 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
– Backport patch to fix might_sleep splat (rhbz 1220519)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1230770 – CVE-2015-4692 kernel: kvm x86: NULL pointer dereference in kvm_apic_has_events function
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230770
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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/.

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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