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Fedora 27 2017-1ebb87e7c0 Critical: Kernel Stack Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey December 24, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Major kernel improvements and critical patches in Fedora 27 notably boost overall resilience and safety of the system.
The 4.14.8 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 4.14.8 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

[ 1 ] Bug #1527112 - CVE-2017-17741 kernel: kvm: stack-based out-of-bounds read via vmcall instruction

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1527112

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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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 4.14.8
Release: 300.fc27
Summary: The Linux kernel

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