Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities
Publication date: 23 Feb 2018Modification date: 23 Feb 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2017-5715 , CVE-2017-5754
Description
This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.20 and and adds KPTI mitigation for Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) on 32bit x86. Arm platorm has now also addedmitigations for Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) and Spectre, variant 2 (CVE-2017-5715). For other fixes in this update, read the referenced changelogs.
References
SRPMS
6/core
- kernel-4.14.20-1.mga6
- kernel-userspace-headers-4.14.20-1.mga6
- kmod-vboxadditions-5.2.6-10.mga6
- kmod-virtualbox-5.2.6-10.mga6
- kmod-xtables-addons-2.13-20.mga6