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Fedora 32: FEDORA-2020-708b23f2ce Critical Kernel Tools Update

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Calendar Grey September 7, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest kernel-tools for Fedora 32 introduces crucial enhancements for stable version 5.8.6, fixing key system operations.
The 5.8.6 stable kernel 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 5.8.6 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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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 32
Version: 5.8.6
Release: 200.fc32
Summary: Assortment of tools for the Linux kernel

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