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Fedora 29: 2018-87ba0312c2 Critical Update for Kernel-Headers

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Calendar Grey December 1, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest kernel packages for Fedora 29 include crucial security improvements, focusing on essential vulnerabilities that could impact user data and system integrity.
The v4.19.5 stable update contains 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 v4.19.5 stable update contains important fixes across the tree

* 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 #1649017 - CVE-2018-16862 kernel: cleancache: Infoleak of deleted files after reuse of old inodes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1649017

[ 2 ] Bug #1652656 - CVE-2018-19407 kernel: kvm: NULL pointer dereference in vcpu_scan_ioapic in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652656

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-87ba0312c2' 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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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 4.19.5
Release: 300.fc29
Summary: Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc

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