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Fedora 27: FEDORA-2018-c0a1284064 Critical Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey October 1, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A vital patch for kernel-headers in Fedora 27 resolves major vulnerabilities, enhancing overall system robustness and performance.
The 4.18.10 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

Kernel-headers includes the C header files that specify the interface

between the Linux kernel and userspace libraries and programs. The

header files define structures and constants that are needed for

building most standard programs and are also needed for rebuilding the

glibc package.

The 4.18.10 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

[ 1 ] Bug #1626035 - CVE-2018-14633 kernel: stack-based buffer overflow in chap_server_compute_md5() in iscsi target

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1626035

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-c0a1284064' 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 27
Version: 4.18.10
Release: 100.fc27
Summary: Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc

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