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Fedora 27: FEDORA-2017-f7cb245861 Critical Kernel Update for DoS

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Calendar Grey December 21, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Kernel version 4.14.7 released for Fedora 27 addresses vital fixes for denial-of-service vulnerabilities and improves overall security for the system.
The 4.14.7 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 4.14.7 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

[ 1 ] Bug #1526427 - CVE-2017-17712 kernel: Race condition in raw_sendmsg function allows denial-of-service or kernel addresses leak

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1526427

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/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 4.14.7
Release: 300.fc27
Summary: The Linux kernel

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