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Fedora 28: FEDORA-2018-ddbaca855e High: Kernel-Headers Update

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Calendar Grey October 9, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Crucial Fedora 28 kernel-headers security patch resolves privilege escalation vulnerabilities and includes key enhancements.
The 4.18.12 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 4.18.12 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

[ 1 ] Bug #1635475 - kernel: Privilege escalation on arm64 via KVM hypervisor

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1635475

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-ddbaca855e' 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/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 28
Version: 4.18.12
Release: 200.fc28
Summary: Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc

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