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Fedora 29: 2019-7bdeed7fc5 Moderate: Kernel Update with Important Fixes

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Calendar Grey February 26, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A vital update for kernel security in Fedora 29 introduces essential fixes and enhancements in the 4.20.11 version.
The 4.20.11 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 4.20.11 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

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

- Linux v4.20.11

* Tue Feb 19 2019 Justin M. Forbes

- Fix CVE-2019-8912 (rhbz 1678685 1678686)

* 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

- Fixes CVE-2019-7221 (rhbz 1671904 1673676)

- Fixes CVE-2019-6974 (rhbz 1671913 1673681)

- Fixes CVE-2019-7222 (rhbz 1671930 1673686)

* Mon Feb 11 2019 Peter Robinson

- Minor Arm fixes and enhancements

* 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

- Fix CVE-2018-16880 (rhbz 1656472 1669545)

* Wed Jan 23 2019 Hans de Goede

- Add upstream patch fixing backlight control not working on some laptops

with a Nvidia GPU (rhbz#1663613, rhbz#1665505)

* 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 rebase

* Mon Jan 14 2019 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.15-300

- Linux v4.19.15

- Fix CVE-2019-3459 and CVE-2019-3460 (rbhz 1663176 1663179 1665925)

* Wed Jan 9 2019 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.14-300

- Linux v4.19.14

* Wed Jan 9 2019 Justin M. Forbes

- Fix CVE-2019-3701 (rhbz 1663729 1663730)

* Mon Jan 7 2019 Hans de Goede

- Add patch to fix bluetooth on RPI 3B+ registering twice (rhbz#1661961)

* Sat Dec 29 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.13-300

- Linux v4.19.13

* Thu Dec 27 2018 Hans de Goede

- Set CONFIG_REALTEK_PHY=y to workaround realtek ethernet issues (rhbz 1650984)

* Mon Dec 24 2018 Peter Robinson 4.19.12-301

- Another fix for issue affecting Raspberry Pi 3-series WiFi (rhbz 1652093)

* Sat Dec 22 2018 Peter Robinson 4.19.12-300

- 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

* Fri Dec 14 2018 Peter Robinson 4.19.9-301

- Fix Raspberry Pi issues affecting WiFi (rhbz 1652093)

* 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 #1678685 - CVE-2019-8912 kernel: af_alg_release() in crypto/af_alg.c neglects to set a NULL value for a certain structure member, which leads to a use-after-free in sockfs_setattr

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1678685

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-7bdeed7fc5' 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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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 4.20.11
Release: 200.fc29
Summary: The Linux kernel

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