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Fedora 32: FEDORA-2020-3c6fedeb83 Critical: Kernel 5.8.9 Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 16, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Kernel 5.8.9 release for Fedora 32 resolves significant buffer overflow vulnerabilities and introduces essential enhancements.
The 5.8.9 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 5.8.9 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

* Mon Sep 14 2020 Justin M. Forbes - 5.8.9-200

- Linux v5.8.9

- Fix error code in bdev_del_part (rhbz 1878858)

* Thu Sep 10 2020 Justin M. Forbes

- Fix CVE-2020-25211 (rhbz 1877571 1877572)

[ 1 ] Bug #1877571 - CVE-2020-25211 kernel: Local buffer overflow in ctnetlink_parse_tuple_filter in net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1877571

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-3c6fedeb83' 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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Product: Fedora 32
Version: 5.8.9
Release: 200.fc32
Summary: The Linux kernel

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