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Fedora 29 Kernel-Headers Security Update: Critical Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The patch updates for Fedora 29's kernel-headers tackle significant vulnerabilities and boost overall system efficiency and reliability.
The 4.18.10 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree ---- The 4.18.7 update contains a number of 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 4.18.10 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree ----The 4.18.7 update contains a number of fixes across the tree

[ 1 ] Bug #1626035 - CVE-2018-14633 kernel: stack-based buffer overflow in chap_server_compute_md5() in iscsi target

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1626035

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-5453baa4af' at the command

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

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 4.18.10
Release: 300.fc29
Summary: Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc

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