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Fedora 26 Kernel Update 2017-78c4c71539 Critical SCTP Fix

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Calendar Grey August 31, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest kernel revision for Fedora 26 introduces crucial patches and resolves recent vulnerabilities that impact the SCTP protocol implementation.
The 4.12.9 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 4.12.9 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

[ 1 ] Bug #1480266 - CVE-2017-7558 kernel: Out of bounds read in inet_diag_msg_sctp{,l}addr_fill() and sctp_get_sctp_info() in SCTP stack

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1480266

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/

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 4.12.9
Release: 300.fc26
Summary: The Linux kernel

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