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Fedora 32: FEDORA-2020-b858b48b23 moderate: Memory Corruption Fix

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Calendar Grey September 10, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The 5.8.7 kernel upgrade in Fedora 32 addresses significant issues related to potential memory corruption exploits.
The 5.8.7 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 5.8.7 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

* Mon Sep 7 2020 Justin M. Forbes - 5.8.7-200

- Linux v5.8.7

- Fix CVE-2020-14386 (rhbz 1875699 1876349)

[ 1 ] Bug #1875699 - CVE-2020-14386 kernel: memory corruption in net/packet/af_packet.c leads to elevation of privilege

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1875699

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-b858b48b23' 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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References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 32
Version: 5.8.7
Release: 200.fc32
Summary: The Linux kernel

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