Advisories » MGASA-2020-0162

Updated kernel packages fix security issues

Publication date: 05 Apr 2020
Modification date: 05 Apr 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7

Description

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:
- WireGuard module has been updated to v1.0.20200401
- ndiswrapper has been fixed and re-enabled (mga#26430)
- udisks2 has been fixed to properly automount exfat partitions using
  the in-kernel exfat driver (mga#26396)
                

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

SRPMS

7/core

• kernel-5.5.15-3.mga7
• kmod-virtualbox-6.0.18-11.mga7
• kmod-xtables-addons-3.8-11.mga7
• ndiswrapper-1.62-3.mga7
• udisks2-2.8.2-1.1.mga7