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Fedora 29 Security Advisory: 2019-164946aa7f Important Kernel Fixes

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Calendar Grey February 16, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Kernel-headers security update resolves critical issues and brings essential fixes for the Fedora 29 system.
The 4.20.8 stable kernel 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 4.20.8 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

* Tue Feb 12 2019 Justin M. Forbes - 4.20.8-200

- Linux v4.20.8

* Wed Feb 6 2019 Justin M. Forbes - 4.20.7-200

- Linux v4.20.7

* Thu Jan 31 2019 Justin M. Forbes - 4.20.6-200

- Linux v4.20.6

* Mon Jan 28 2019 Justin M. Forbes - 4.20.5-200

- Linux v4.20.5

* Wed Jan 23 2019 Justin M. Forbes - 4.20.4-200

- Linux v4.20.4

* Thu Jan 17 2019 Justin M. Forbes - 4.20.3-200

- Linux v4.20.3

* Mon Jan 14 2019 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.15-300

- Linux v4.19.15

* Wed Jan 9 2019 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.14-300

- Linux v4.19.14

* Sat Dec 29 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.13-300

- Linux v4.19.13

* Fri Dec 28 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.12-301

- Linux v4.19.12

* Thu Dec 20 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.11-300

- Linux v4.19.11

* Mon Dec 17 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.10-300

- Linux v4.19.10

* Thu Dec 13 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.9-300

- Linux v4.19.9

* Mon Dec 10 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.8-300

- Linux v4.19.8

* Wed Dec 5 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.7-300

- Linux v4.19.7

* Sun Dec 2 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.6-300

- Linux v4.19.6

* Tue Nov 27 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.5-300

- Linux v4.19.5

* Wed Nov 21 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.5-300

- Linux v4.19.3

* Wed Nov 14 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.2-300

- Linux v4.19.2

* Mon Nov 12 2018 Laura Abbott - 4.18.18-300

- Linux v4.18.18

* Mon Nov 5 2018 Laura Abbott - 4.18.17-300

- Linux v4.18.17

[ 1 ] Bug #1671930 - CVE-2019-7222 Kernel: KVM: leak of uninitialized stack contents to guest

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1671930

[ 2 ] Bug #1671913 - CVE-2019-6974 Kernel: KVM: potential use-after-free via kvm_ioctl_create_device()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1671913

[ 3 ] Bug #1671904 - CVE-2019-7221 Kernel: KVM: nVMX: use-after-free of the hrtimer for emulation of the preemption timer

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1671904

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-164946aa7f' 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

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 4.20.8
Release: 200.fc29
Summary: Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc

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