Fedora 27: 2018-d77cc41f35 Moderate: Kernel-Headers Privilege Escalation

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 4.18.9 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

---- The 4.18.8 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

[ 1 ] Bug #1631205 - CVE-2018-17182 kernel: Use-after-free in the vmacache_flush_all function resulting in a possible privilege escalation

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1631205

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-d77cc41f35' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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

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