The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linuxoperating system.Red Hat would like to thank Hannes Frederic Sowa for reportingCVE-2013-4470, and Andrew Honig of Google for reporting CVE-2013-6367 andCVE-2013-6368.This update also fixes several bugs and adds two enhancements.Documentation for these changes will be available shortly from theTechnical Notes document linked to in the References sectionAll kernel users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, whichcontain backported patches to correct these issues and add theseenhancements. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
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