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Fedora 30: FEDORA-2020-64d46a6e29 Critical: Kernel Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey May 1, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Fedora 30 kernel patch brings crucial corrections addressing several vulnerabilities along with a significant privilege escalation remedy. Updating recommended.
The 5.6.8 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 5.6.8 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

* Wed Apr 29 2020 Justin M. Forbes - 5.6.8-100

- Linux v5.6.8

- Fixes CVE-2020-11884 (rhbz 1828149 1829181)

* Tue Apr 28 2020 Justin M. Forbes

- MST Fix from Lyude Paul

- drm/i915/gem: Hold obj->vma.lock over for_each_ggtt_vma() (airlied request)

[ 1 ] Bug #1828149 - CVE-2020-11884 Kernel: s390: page table upgrade in secondary address mode may lead to privilege escalation

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1828149

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-64d46a6e29' 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 30
Version: 5.6.8
Release: 100.fc30
Summary: The Linux kernel

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