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Fedora 29: FEDORA-2018-f55c305488 Moderate: Info Leak in Kernel Tools

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Calendar Grey November 18, 2018
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Fedora 29's kernel-tools has been updated with a security patch that resolves an identified issue and enhances compatibility with kernel version 4.19.x.
This is a rebase to the v4.19.x kernel and includes new features and bug fixes.

Summary

This package contains the tools/ directory from the kernel source

and the supporting documentation.

This is a rebase to the v4.19.x kernel and includes new features and bug fixes.

* 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 #1645140 - CVE-2018-18710 kernel: Information leak in cdrom_ioctl_select_disc in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1645140

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-f55c305488' 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

Product: Fedora 29
Version: 4.19.2
Release: 300.fc29
Summary: Assortment of tools for the Linux kernel

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