Mageia: 2019-0414 Moderate: Kernel Buffer Overflow and Input Validation Fix
mageia
December 25, 2019
This update is based on upstream 5.4.6 and fixes various potential security issues related to buffer overflows, double frees, NUll pointer dereferences, improper / missing input v...
Summary
This update is based on upstream 5.4.6 and fixes various potential security issues related to buffer overflows, double frees, NUll pointer dereferences, improper / missing input validations and so on. It also adds other bugfixes all over the kernel.
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25897
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25926
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.4.3
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.4.4
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.4.5
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.4.6
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/kernel-5.4.6-2.mga7
- 7/core/kmod-virtualbox-6.0.14-16.mga7
- 7/core/kmod-xtables-addons-3.7-6.mga7
- 7/core/wireguard-tools-0.0.20191219-1.mga7
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Publication date: 25 Dec 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0414.html
Type: security
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