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Fedora 32: FEDORA-2020-708b23f2ce Important Kernel-Headers Update

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Calendar Grey September 7, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Kernel-headers significant refresh for Fedora 32 brings essential corrections that improve system reliability and efficiency.
The 5.8.6 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

Kernel-headers includes the C header files that specify the interface

between the Linux kernel and userspace libraries and programs. The

header files define structures and constants that are needed for

building most standard programs and are also needed for rebuilding the

glibc package.

The 5.8.6 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

* Thu Sep 3 2020 Justin M. Forbes - 5.8.6-200

- Linux v5.8.6

[ 1 ] Bug #1874800 - CVE-2020-14385 kernel: metadata validator in XFS may cause an inode with a valid, user-creatable extended attribute to be flagged as corrupt

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1874800

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-708b23f2ce' 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: 5.8.6
Release: 200.fc32
Summary: Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc

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