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Fedora 28: FEDORA-2018-537c8312fc Critical: Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey May 29, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A crucial kernel security patch for Fedora 28 addresses significant vulnerabilities like a memory overflow. Safeguard your device!
The v4.16.12 update contains important fixes across the tree

Summary

The kernel meta package

The v4.16.12 update contains important fixes across the tree

* Fri May 25 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.16.12-300

- Linux v4.16.12

- Fix CVE-2018-10840 (rhbz 1582346 1582348)

- Fix for incorrect error message about parsing PCCT (rhbz 1435837)

* Tue May 22 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.16.11-300

- Linux v4.16.11

* Mon May 21 2018 Justin M. Forbes - 4.16.10-301

- Fix CVE-2018-3639 (rhbz 1566890 1580713)

* Mon May 21 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.16.10-300

- Linux v4.16.10

* Sun May 20 2018 Hans de Goede

- Enable GPIO_AMDPT, PINCTRL_AMD and X86_AMD_PLATFORM_DEVICE Kconfig options

to fix i2c and GPIOs not working on AMD based laptops (rhbz#1510649)

* Thu May 17 2018 Justin M. Forbes

- Fix CVE-2018-1120 (rhbz 1575472 1579542)

* Thu May 17 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.16.9-300

- Linux v4.16.9

- Silence unwanted "swiotlb buffer is full" warnings (rhbz 1556797)

* Wed May 9 2018 Jeremy Cline

- Workaround for m400 uart irq firmware description (rhbz 1574718)

* Wed May 9 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.16.8-300

- Linux v4.16.8

* Mon May 7 2018 Jeremy Cline

- Fix issue with KVM on older Core 2 processors (rhbz 1566258)

* Sat May 5 2018 Peter Robinson

- ARM and Raspberry Pi fixes

- Fix USB-2 on Tegra devices

* Fri May 4 2018 Laura Abbott

- Fix for building out of tree modules on powerpc (rhbz 1574604)

* Fri May 4 2018 Justin M. Forbes

- Fix CVE-2018-10322 (rhbz 1571623 1571624)

- Fix CVE-2018-10323 (rhbz 1571627 1571630)

* Wed May 2 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.16.7-300

- Linux v4.16.7

* Tue May 1 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.16.6-302

- Revert the entire random series from 4.16.4 (rhbz 1572944)

* Tue May 1 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.16.6-301

- Revert the fix for CVE-2018-1108 (rhbz 1572944)

* Mon Apr 30 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.16.6-300

- Linux v4.16.6

* Fri Apr 27 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.16.5-300

- Fix an issue with bluetooth autosupsend on some XPS 13 9360 (rhbz 1514836)

- Fix prlimit64 with RLIMIT_CPU ignored (rhbz 1568337)

- Linux v4.16.5

* Fri Apr 27 2018 Peter Robinson

- Enable QLogic NICs on ARM

* Wed Apr 25 2018 Jeremy Cline

- Fix a kernel oops when using Thunderbolt 3 docks (rhbz 1565131)

* Tue Apr 24 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.16.4-300

- Linux v4.16.4

- Fix a regression in backlight interfaces for some laptops (rhbz 1571036)

[ 1 ] Bug #1435837 - Error parsing PCC subspaces from PCCT

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1435837

[ 2 ] Bug #1582348 - CVE-2018-10840 kernel: Heap-based buffer overflow in fs/ext4/xattr.c:ext4_xattr_set_entry() with crafted ext4 image [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1582348

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-537c8312fc' 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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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 4.16.12
Release: 300.fc28
Summary: The Linux kernel

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