MGASA-2018-0263 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.44 and fixes at least the following security issues: By mmaping a FUSE-backed file onto a process's memory containing command line arguments or environment strings, an attacker can cause utilities from psutils or procps such as ps, w or any other...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.44 and fixes at least the following security issues: By mmaping a FUSE-backed file onto a process's memory containing command line arguments or environment strings, an attacker can cause utilities from psutils or procps such as ps, w or any other...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.40 and fixes at least the following security issues: On x86, MOV SS and POP SS behave strangely if they encounter a data breakpoint. If this occurs in a KVM guest, KVM incorrectly thinks that a DB instruction was caused by the undocumented ICEBP...

MGASA-2018-0172 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.25 and updates the KPTI mitigation for Meltdown CVE-2017-5754 on 32bit x86. It also adds ome optimizations and improvements to mitigate some of the slowdons caused by the Meltdown CVE-2017-5754 and Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715. Other security...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.25 and updates the KPTI mitigation for Meltdown CVE-2017-5754 on 32bit x86. It also adds ome optimizations and improvements to mitigate some of the slowdons caused by the Meltdown CVE-2017-5754 and Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715. Other security...

MGASA-2018-0126 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.14.18 and adds some support for mitigating Spectre, variant 1 CVE-2017-5753 and as it is built with the retpoline-aware gcc-5.5.0-1.mga6, it now provides full retpoline mitigation for Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715. The BPF interpreter has been...

Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.14.18 and adds some support for mitigating Spectre, variant 1 CVE-2017-5753 and as it is built with the retpoline-aware gcc-5.5.0-1.mga6, it now provides full retpoline mitigation for Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715. The BPF interpreter has been...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.18 and adds some support for mitigating Spectre, variant 1 CVE-2017-5753 and as it is built with the retpoline-aware gcc-5.5.0-1.mga6, it now provides full retpoline mitigation for Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715. WireGuard has been updated to...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.16 and fixes several security issues. The most important fixes in this update is for the security issue named "Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715" that is partly mitigated by enabling retpoline support. For full retpoline mitigation, kernel needs to ...