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Fedora 27: FEDORA-2018-2ee3411cb8 Critical: Kernel-Tools DoS Update

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Calendar Grey October 16, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 27's kernel-tools patch enhances security measures by mitigating critical vulnerabilities linked to unauthorized access. Discover further insights here.
The 4.18.13 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

This package contains the tools/ directory from the kernel source

and the supporting documentation.

The 4.18.13 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

[ 1 ] Bug #1636349 - CVE-2018-17972 kernel: Unprivileged users able to inspect kernel stacks of arbitrary tasks

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1636349

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-2ee3411cb8' 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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 4.18.13
Release: 100.fc27
Summary: Assortment of tools for the Linux kernel

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