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Fedora 26: 4.12.5 Critical Update for Kernel Security Issues

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Calendar Grey August 14, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Debian 10 kernel revision 4.19.20 boosts system reliability through essential patches aimed at enhancing efficiency and security.
The 4.12.5 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 4.12.5 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

[ 1 ] Bug #1468283 - CVE-2017-7533 kernel: a race between inotify_handle_event() and sys_rename()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1468283

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: 4.12.5
Release: 300.fc26
Summary: The Linux kernel

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