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Fedora 29: 2019-aabdaa013d Critical Kernel-Headers Security Fix

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Calendar Grey February 1, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Crucial patch release for Fedora 29 kernel-headers, targeting severe vulnerabilities and improving overall system performance.
The 4.20.5 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 4.20.5 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

* 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 #1656472 - CVE-2018-16880 kernel: Out of bounds write in get_rx_bufs() function in drivers/vhost/net.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1656472

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-aabdaa013d' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 4.20.5
Release: 200.fc29
Summary: Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc

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