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Fedora 29: FEDORA-2018-f392ab8c84 Critical Update for Kernel Security

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Calendar Grey October 8, 2018
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Safety patch released for Fedora 29's kernel, targeting urgent vulnerabilities and risks related to privilege elevation.
The 4.18.12 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

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The 4.18.12 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

[ 1 ] Bug #1635475 - kernel: Privilege escalation on arm64 via KVM hypervisor

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1635475

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-f392ab8c84' 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: 4.18.12
Release: 300.fc29
Summary: The Linux kernel

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