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Fedora 28: FEDORA-2018-a0914af224 Critical: Kernel-Headers Fixes

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Calendar Grey December 11, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Immediate kernel-headers patch for Fedora 28 addresses disk corruption problems affecting user-level applications.
This stable update contains important fixes across the tree including an important fix for a bug that causes filesystem corruption in some cases.

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.

This stable update contains important fixes across the tree including an

important fix for a bug that causes filesystem corruption in some cases.

[ 1 ] Bug #1655816 - CVE-2018-19824 kernel: Use-after-free in sound/usb/card.c:usb_audio_probe()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655816

[ 2 ] Bug #1652650 - CVE-2018-19406 kernel: kvm: NULL pointer dereference in kvm_pv_send_ipi in arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652650

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-a0914af224' 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 28
Version: 4.19.7
Release: 200.fc28
Summary: Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc

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