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Fedora 30: WALinuxAgent Security Update FEDORA-2019-9effd63191 Critical

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Important vulnerability patch for WALinuxAgent on Fedora 30 targeting CVE-2019-0804 flaws.
Security fix for CVE-2019-0804

Summary

The Microsoft Azure Linux Agent supports the provisioning and running of Linux

VMs in the Microsoft Azure cloud. This package should be installed on Linux disk

images that are built to run in the Microsoft Azure environment.

Security fix for CVE-2019-0804

[ 1 ] Bug #1684181 - CVE-2019-0804 WALinuxAgent: swapfile created with weak permissions

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1684181

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-9effd63191' 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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 30
Version: 2.2.38
Release: 1.fc30
Summary: The Microsoft Azure Linux Agent

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