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Fedora 29: FEDORA-2018-2645eb8dab Critical: Kernel Security Update

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Calendar Grey December 18, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Key improvements are featured in this latest stable release for Fedora 29's kernel, tackling essential problems and bolstering security measures.
The stable kernel update contains important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The stable kernel update contains important fixes across the tree.

* Thu Dec 13 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.9-300

- Linux v4.19.9

* Tue Dec 11 2018 Hans de Goede

- Really fix non functional hotkeys on Asus FX503VD (#1645070)

* Mon Dec 10 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.8-300

- Linux v4.19.8

* Thu Dec 6 2018 Peter Robinson

- Fix for ethernet LEDs on Raspberry Pi 3B+

* Wed Dec 5 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.7-300

- Linux v4.19.7

* Wed Dec 5 2018 Jeremy Cline

- Fix corruption bug in direct dispatch for blk-mq

* Tue Dec 4 2018 Justin M. Forbes

- Fix CVE-2018-19824 (rhbz 1655816 1655817)

* Mon Dec 3 2018 Jeremy Cline

- Fix very quiet speakers on the Thinkpad T570 (rhbz 1554304)

* Mon Dec 3 2018 Hans de Goede

- Fix non functional hotkeys on Asus FX503VD (#1645070)

* Sun Dec 2 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.6-300

- Linux v4.19.6

* Thu Nov 29 2018 Jeremy Cline

- Fix a problem with some rtl8168 chips (rhbz 1650984)

- Fix slowdowns and crashes for AMD GPUs in pre-PCIe-v3 slots

* Tue Nov 27 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.5-300

- Linux v4.19.5

- Fix CVE-2018-16862 (rhbz 1649017 1653122)

- Fix CVE-2018-19407 (rhbz 1652656 1652658)

* Mon Nov 26 2018 Jeremy Cline

- Fixes a null pointer dereference with Nvidia and vmwgfx drivers (rhbz 1650224)

* Fri Nov 23 2018 Peter Robinson - 4.19.4-300

- Linux v4.19.4

* Thu Nov 22 2018 Peter Robinson

- Fixes for Rockchips 3399 devices

* Wed Nov 21 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.3-300

- Linux v4.19.3

* Tue Nov 20 2018 Hans de Goede

- Turn on CONFIG_PINCTRL_GEMINILAKE on x86_64 (rhbz#1639155)

- Add a patch fixing touchscreens on HP AMD based laptops (rhbz#1644013)

- Add a patch fixing KIOX010A accelerometers (rhbz#1526312)

* Sat Nov 17 2018 Peter Robinson 4.19.2-301

- Fix WiFi on Raspberry Pi 3 on aarch64 (rhbz 1649344)

- Fixes for Raspberry Pi hwmon driver and firmware interface

* Fri Nov 16 2018 Hans de Goede

- Add patches from 4.20 fixing black screen on CHT devices with i915.fastboot=1

* Thu Nov 15 2018 Hans de Goede

- Add patch fixing touchpads on some Apollo Lake devices not working (#1526312)

* Wed Nov 14 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.2-300

- Linux v4.19.2

- Fix CVE-2018-18710 (rhbz 1645140 1648485)

* 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

* Tue Oct 23 2018 Laura Abbott

- Add i915 eDP fixes

[ 1 ] Bug #1619846 - CVE-2018-14625 kernel: use-after-free Read in vhost_transport_send_pkt

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1619846

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-2645eb8dab' 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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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 4.19.9
Release: 300.fc29
Summary: The Linux kernel

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