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A kernel security update has been released for Fedora 31.



SECURITY: Fedora 31 Update: kernel-5.6.8-200.fc31


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-b453269c4e
2020-05-02 03:45:22.147229
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Name : kernel
Product : Fedora 31
Version : 5.6.8
Release : 200.fc31
URL :   https://www.kernel.org/
Summary : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel meta package

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Update Information:

The 5.6.8 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the
tree.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Apr 29 2020 Justin M. Forbes - 5.6.8-200
- Linux v5.6.8
- Fixes CVE-2020-11884 (rhbz 1828149 1829181)
* Tue Apr 28 2020 Justin M. Forbes
- MST Fix from Lyude Paul
- drm/i915/gem: Hold obj->vma.lock over for_each_ggtt_vma() (airlied request)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1828149 - CVE-2020-11884 Kernel: s390: page table upgrade in secondary address mode may lead to privilege escalation
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1828149
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-b453269c4e' 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

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