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Fedora 28: FEDORA-2018-e820fccd83 critical: Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey September 22, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent kernel-headers security update for Fedora 28 resolves critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities and includes significant enhancements.
The 4.18.9 stable 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 4.18.9 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

[ 1 ] Bug #1631205 - CVE-2018-17182 kernel: Use-after-free in the vmacache_flush_all function resulting in a possible privilege escalation

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1631205

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-e820fccd83' 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: 4.18.9
Release: 200.fc28
Summary: Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc

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