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Mageia 7: MGASA-2020-0162 Moderate: Kernel Security Fixes

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Calendar Grey April 5, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 7 kernel updates rectify both use-after-free vulnerabilities and null pointer dereference problems along with several other bug corrections.
This update is based on upstream 5.5.15 and fixes some security related issues related to use after free and null pointer dereferences and also some other bugfixes

Summary

This update is based on upstream 5.5.15 and fixes some security related issues related to use after free and null pointer dereferences and also some other bugfixes. Other fixes in this update:

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26434

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26430

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26396

- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.5.15

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/kernel-5.5.15-3.mga7

- 7/core/kmod-virtualbox-6.0.18-11.mga7

- 7/core/kmod-xtables-addons-3.8-11.mga7

- 7/core/ndiswrapper-1.62-3.mga7

- 7/core/udisks2-2.8.2-1.1.mga7

Publication date: 05 Apr 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0162.html
Type: security

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