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Fedora 31: FEDORA-2019-6a67ff8793 Critical: Kernel-Tools Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey October 24, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora System Alert: Essential updates released, addressing a significant vulnerability in kernel-tools related to a severe buffer overflow.
The 5.3.7 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 5.3.7 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. The

update also includes a fix for the

[CVE-2019-17666](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17666) security

vulnerability regarding a buffer overflow in a Realtek wireless driver.

[ 1 ] Bug #1763692 - CVE-2019-17666 kernel: rtl_p2p_noa_ie in drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/ps.c in the Linux kernel lacks a certain upper-bound check, leading to a buffer overflow [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1763692

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-6a67ff8793' 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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 31
Version: 5.3.7
Release: 300.fc31
Summary: Assortment of tools for the Linux kernel

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