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Fedora 28: 2018-2c6bd93875 Critical: Kernel Out-Of-Bounds Issue

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The 4.17.2 kernel rebase contains new drivers, new features, and a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

This package contains the tools/ directory from the kernel source

and the supporting documentation.

The 4.17.2 kernel rebase contains new drivers, new features, and a number of

important fixes across the tree.

* Mon Jun 18 2018 Justin M. Forbes - 4.17.2-200

- Linux v4.17.2 Rebase

* Tue May 22 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.16.0-302

- Backport a second patch for kvm_stat Python 3 support

* Sat Apr 28 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.16.0-301

- Bump the release so it's higher than F27

* Sat Apr 28 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.16.0-2

- Backport a fix for Python 3 compatibility

[ 1 ] Bug #1582358 - CVE-2018-11412 kernel: out-of-bounds memcpy in fs/ext4/inline.c:ext4_read_inline_data() with crafted ext4 image

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1582358

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-2c6bd93875' 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: 4.17.2
Release: 200.fc28
Summary: Assortment of tools for the Linux kernel

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