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Fedora 28: 2018-ac3b4c7605 Critical: Kernel Denial of Service Risks

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Calendar Grey May 14, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent kernel upgrade for Fedora 28 delivers essential security enhancements aimed at boosting system reliability and overall efficiency.
The v4.16.8 update contains important fixes across the tree

Summary

The kernel meta package

The v4.16.8 update contains important fixes across the tree

* 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 #1571630 - CVE-2018-10323 kernel: Invalid pointer dereference in xfs_bmapi_write() when mounting and operating on crafted xfs image allows denial of service [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1571630

[ 2 ] Bug #1571624 - CVE-2018-10322 kernel: Invalid pointer dereference in xfs_ilock_attr_map_shared() when mounting crafted xfs image allowing denial of service [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1571624

[ 3 ] Bug #1574604 - Out-of-tree kernel modules fail to build on ppc64 with 4.16 kernel

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1574604

[ 4 ] Bug #1566258 - Running a VM causes thousands of vmwrite error: reg 401e value 2021 (err 12)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1566258

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-ac3b4c7605' 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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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 4.16.8
Release: 300.fc28
Summary: The Linux kernel

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