Fedora 29: FEDORA-2018-272cf2f9f4 Critical Privilege Escalation Fix

The kernel meta package

The 4.18.9 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

---- The 4.18.8 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

[ 1 ] Bug #1631205 - CVE-2018-17182 kernel: Use-after-free in the vmacache_flush_all function resulting in a possible privilege escalation

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1631205

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-272cf2f9f4' 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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