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Fedora 28 Kernel-Headers Update: Critical Buffer Overflow Resolved

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Calendar Grey April 25, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 28 has released an important kernel-headers patch to fix significant vulnerabilities. Use dnf to apply the update and enhance your system's security.
The 5.0.9 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 5.0.9 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

[ 1 ] Bug #1701224 - CVE-2019-9500 kernel: brcmfmac heap buffer overflow in brcmf_wowl_nd_results

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1701224

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-1b986880ea' 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

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 5.0.9
Release: 100.fc28
Summary: Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc

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