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Fedora 32: FEDORA-2020-57bf620276 Critical DoS Kernel Fix

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Calendar Grey May 24, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The upgrade to Fedora 32's kernel introduces vital improvements that enhance reliability and bolster security, particularly against potential Denial of Service threats
The 5.6.14 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 5.6.14 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree

* Wed May 20 2020 Hans de Goede - 5.6.14-300

- Fix automatic guest resolution resizing of VirtualBox VMs (rhbz 1789545)

- Fix Sony laptop hang on resume from suspend (rhbz 1830150)

* Wed May 20 2020 Justin M. Forbes

- Linux v5.6.14

- Fix CVE-2020-12888 (rhbz 1836245 1836244)

* Mon May 18 2020 Justin M. Forbes

- Fix stability issue with the jetson-tk1 NIC

* Mon May 18 2020 Hans de Goede

- Add patch fixing backlight control on Cherry Trail devices (rhbz 1828927)

[ 1 ] Bug #1836244 - CVE-2020-12888 Kernel: vfio: access to disabled MMIO space of some devices may lead to DoS scenario

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1836244

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-57bf620276' 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

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 32
Version: 5.6.14
Release: 300.fc32
Summary: The Linux kernel

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