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A kernel security update has been released for Fedora 31.



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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-76966b3419
2020-03-27 13:08:02.289620
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Name : kernel
Product : Fedora 31
Version : 5.5.11
Release : 200.fc31
URL :   https://www.kernel.org/
Summary : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel meta package

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Update Information:

The 5.5.11 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the
tree.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Mar 23 2020 Justin M. Forbes - 5.5.11-200
- Linux v5.5.11
* Fri Mar 20 2020 Jeremy Cline
- Switch Secure Boot to lock down to integrity mode (rhbz 1815571)
* Fri Mar 20 2020 Justin M. Forbes
- Fix CVE-2019-19769 (rhbz 1786174 1786175)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1786174 - CVE-2019-19769 kernel: use-after-free in perf_trace_lock_acquire related to include/trace/events/lock.h
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1786174
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-76966b3419' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys