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Fedora 26: 2017-7810b7c59f Critical: Kernel DoS and Security Fixes

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Calendar Grey December 24, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Kernel revision 4.14.8 for Fedora 26 rectifies significant vulnerabilities to improve both system protection and reliability.
The 4.14.8 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 4.14.8 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree. ---- The 4.14.7 stable kernel update contains a number of important

fixes across the tree.

[ 1 ] Bug #1527112 - CVE-2017-17741 kernel: kvm: stack-based out-of-bounds read via vmcall instruction

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1527112

[ 2 ] Bug #1526427 - CVE-2017-17712 kernel: Race condition in raw_sendmsg function allows denial-of-service or kernel addresses leak

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1526427

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

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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

To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 4.14.8
Release: 200.fc26
Summary: The Linux kernel

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