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Fedora 29: 2019-7462acf8ba Critical: Kernel-Headers Memory Leak

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Calendar Grey March 1, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest kernel-headers security patch enhances Fedora 29 by mitigating potential memory leak vulnerabilities. Keep abreast of essential updates and vital security fixes.
The 4.20.12 stable 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 4.20.12 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

* Mon Feb 25 2019 Justin M. Forbes - 4.20.12-200

- Linux v4.20.12

* Wed Feb 20 2019 Justin M. Forbes - 4.20.11-200

- Linux v4.20.11

* Fri Feb 15 2019 Justin M. Forbes - 4.20.10-200

- Linux v4.20.10

* 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 #1679972 - CVE-2019-8980 kernel: memory leak in the kernel_read_file function in fs/exec.c allows to cause a denial of service

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1679972

[ 2 ] Bug #1683191 - CVE-2019-9162 kernel: out-of-bounds read/write in et/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic_main.c in the SNMP NAT module

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1683191

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-7462acf8ba' 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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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 4.20.12
Release: 200.fc29
Summary: Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc

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