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Fedora 29: 2019-7bdeed7fc5 Critical: Kernel-Tools Use-After-Free

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A recent security patch for the Fedora 29 kernel-tools addresses critical vulnerabilities while improving overall system reliability and efficiency.
The 4.20.11 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

This package contains the tools/ directory from the kernel source

and the supporting documentation.

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

* 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

* Mon Jan 28 2019 Justin M. Forbes - 4.20.5-200

- Linux v4.20.5

* Thu Jan 17 2019 Justin M. Forbes - 4.20.3-200

- Linux v4.20.3 rebase

* Thu Jan 10 2019 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.14-300

- Linux v4.19.14

* Mon Dec 17 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.10-300

- Linux v4.19.10

* Wed Dec 5 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.7-300

- Linux v4.19.7

* Sun Dec 2 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.6-300

- Linux v4.19.6

* Tue Nov 27 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.5-300

- Linux v4.19.5

* Wed Nov 21 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.3-300

- Linux v4.19.3

* Wed Nov 14 2018 Jeremy Cline - 4.19.2-300

- Linux v4.19.2

* Mon Nov 5 2018 Laura Abbott - 4.18.17-300

- Linux v4.18.17

* Thu Oct 18 2018 Justin M. Forbes - 4.18.15-300

- Linux v4.18.15

* Wed Oct 10 2018 Laura Abbott - 4.18.13-300

- Linux v4.18.13

[ 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

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 4.20.11
Release: 200.fc29
Summary: Assortment of tools for the Linux kernel

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