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Fedora 27: FEDORA-2018-b997780dca moderate: kvm privilege escalation

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Fedora 27's latest update brings vital enhancements to kernel-tools, tackling security vulnerabilities linked to privilege escalation. Discover more details here
The 4.17.2 kernel rebase contains new drivers, new features, and a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

This package contains the tools/ directory from the kernel source

and the supporting documentation.

The 4.17.2 kernel rebase contains new drivers, new features, and a number of

important fixes across the tree. ---- The v4.16.17 update includes important

fixes across the tree

[ 1 ] Bug #1595146 - CVE-2018-12904 kernel: kvm: Missing privilege check allows privilege escalation in nested virtualization scenario [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595146

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-b997780dca' 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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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 4.17.2
Release: 100.fc27
Summary: Assortment of tools for the Linux kernel

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