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Fedora 26: 2018-d82b617d6c Moderate: Kernel Update Security Fixes

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Calendar Grey February 2, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Debian 9 kernel upgrade tackles significant vulnerabilities involving data exposure and service disruption threats.
The 4.14.16 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 4.14.16 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree. ---- The 4.14.15-301 update reverts the retpoline VERMAGIC ABI change

for modules. ---- The 4.14.15 stable kernel update contains a number of

important fixes across the tree.

[ 1 ] Bug #1492664 - kernel: Soft lockup in warn_alloc

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492664

[ 2 ] Bug #1539706 - CVE-2018-5750 kernel: Kernel address information leak in drivers/acpi/sbshc.c:acpi_smbus_hc_add() function potentially allowing KASLR bypass

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1539706

[ 3 ] Bug #1535315 - CVE-2018-1000004 kernel: Race condition in sound system can lead to denial of service

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1535315

su -c 'dnf upgrade kernel' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 4.14.16
Release: 200.fc26
Summary: The Linux kernel

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