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Fedora 27: 2017-abda708cee Critical: Kernel Protection Faults

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Calendar Grey November 14, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Core system patches, featuring essential resolutions for application stability errors and memory access violations in Fedora 28.
The 4.13.12 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 4.13.12 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. It

contains security fixes for CVE-2017-16532 and CVE-2017-16538.

[ 1 ] Bug #1510826 - CVE-2017-16538 kernel: general protection fault in drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/lmedm04.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1510826

[ 2 ] Bug #1510835 - CVE-2017-16532 kernel: Null pointer dereference in get_endpoints function in drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1510835

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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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 4.13.12
Release: 300.fc27
Summary: The Linux kernel

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