Fedora 28: 2019-65c6d11eba Critical Memory Leak and DoS Update

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 5.0.6 update contains a number of important fixes a cross the tree

[ 1 ] Bug #1694758 - CVE-2019-9857 kernel: memory leak in inotify_update_existing_watch() leads to denial of service

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1694758

[ 2 ] Bug #1689426 - CVE-2019-3882 kernel: denial of service vector through vfio DMA mappings

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1689426

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-65c6d11eba' 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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