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Fedora 27 Kernel Update 2018-d09a73ce72 Moderate: Address Leak and DoS

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Calendar Grey February 2, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Kernel refresh in Fedora 27 incorporates essential patches that tackle security vulnerabilities, which notably include possible DoS exploitations.
The 4.14.16 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 4.14.16 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree. ---- The 4.14.15-301 update reverts the retpoline VERMAGIC ABI change

for modules. ---- The 4.14.15 stable kernel update contains a number of

important fixes across the tree.

[ 1 ] Bug #1492664 - kernel: Soft lockup in warn_alloc

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492664

[ 2 ] Bug #1539706 - CVE-2018-5750 kernel: Kernel address information leak in drivers/acpi/sbshc.c:acpi_smbus_hc_add() function potentially allowing KASLR bypass

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1539706

[ 3 ] Bug #1535315 - CVE-2018-1000004 kernel: Race condition in sound system can lead to denial of service

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1535315

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

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 27
Version: 4.14.16
Release: 300.fc27
Summary: The Linux kernel

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