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Fedora 28 Kernel-Tools Update 2018-59e4747e0f Critical Info Leak

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Calendar Grey September 14, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora kernel-tools release addresses critical vulnerabilities, such as a potential data breach. Upgrade to version 4.18.7 for improved security measures.
The 4.18.7 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

This package contains the tools/ directory from the kernel source

and the supporting documentation.

The 4.18.7 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

* Tue Sep 11 2018 Laura Abbott - 4.18.7-200

- Linux v4.18.7

* Tue Sep 4 2018 Laura Abbott - 4.18.5-200

- Linux v4.18.5 rebase

* Fri Aug 24 2018 Justin M. Forbes - 4.17.19-100

- Linux v4.17.19

* Fri Aug 3 2018 Justin M. Forbes - 4.17.12-200

- Linux v4.17.12

* Tue Jul 17 2018 Justin M. Forbes - 4.17.7-200

- Linux v4.17.7

* Tue Jul 3 2018 Justin M. Forbes - 4.17.4-200

- Linux v4.17.4

* 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 #1627731 - CVE-2018-16658 kernel: Information leak in cdrom_ioctl_drive_status

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1627731

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-59e4747e0f' 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

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 4.18.7
Release: 200.fc28
Summary: Assortment of tools for the Linux kernel

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