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Fedora 30: FEDORA-2019-982b97f553 Critical DoS Fix In Kernel-Tools

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The recent Fedora 30 kernel-tools security patch brings crucial enhancements and addresses a potential denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
The 5.0.7 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 5.0.7 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

[ 1 ] Bug #1695044 - CVE-2019-3887 Kernel: KVM: nVMX: guest accesses L0 MSR causes potential DoS

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1695044

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-982b97f553' 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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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 30
Version: 5.0.7
Release: 300.fc30
Summary: Assortment of tools for the Linux kernel

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