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Fedora 28: FEDORA-2019-ce2933b003 Critical Kernel-Headers DoS Issue

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Calendar Grey April 12, 2019
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The kernel-headers enhancement for Fedora 28 rectifies significant vulnerabilities and bolsters overall system security. Ensure you install it for essential updates.
The 5.0.7 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 5.0.7 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

[ 1 ] Bug #1695044 - CVE-2019-3887 Kernel: KVM: nVMX: guest accesses L0 MSR causes potential DoS

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1695044

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-ce2933b003' 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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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 5.0.7
Release: 100.fc28
Summary: Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc

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