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Fedora 28: FEDORA-2019-16de0047d4 Critical: Kernel-Headers Security Update

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Calendar Grey February 26, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Kernel Headers Refresh for Fedora 28 Addresses Key Vulnerabilities and Delivers Significant Updates.
The 4.20.11 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

Kernel-headers includes the C header files that specify the interface

between the Linux kernel and userspace libraries and programs. The

header files define structures and constants that are needed for

building most standard programs and are also needed for rebuilding the

glibc package.

The 4.20.11 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree. ---- The 4.20.10 stable kernel update contains a number of important

fixes across the tree.

[ 1 ] Bug #1678685 - CVE-2019-8912 kernel: af_alg_release() in crypto/af_alg.c neglects to set a NULL value for a certain structure member, which leads to a use-after-free in sockfs_setattr

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1678685

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-16de0047d4' 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

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 4.20.11
Release: 100.fc28
Summary: Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc

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