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A kernel-headers security update has been released for Fedora 31.



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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-3cd64d683c
2020-02-29 03:20:42.435028
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Name : kernel-headers
Product : Fedora 31
Version : 5.5.6
Release : 200.fc31
URL :   http://www.kernel.org/
Summary : Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc
Description :
Kernel-headers includes the C header files that specify the interface
between the Linux kernel and userspace libraries and programs. The
header files define structures and constants that are needed for
building most standard programs and are also needed for rebuilding the
glibc package.

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Update Information:

The 5.5.6 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the
tree.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Feb 24 2020 Justin M. Forbes - 5.5.6-200
- Linux v5.5.6
* Wed Feb 19 2020 Justin M. Forbes - 5.5.5-200
- Linux v5.5.5
* Tue Feb 11 2020 Jeremy Cline - 5.4.18-200
- Linux v5.4.18
* Wed Jan 1 2020 Justin M. Forbes - 5.4.7-200
- Linux v5.4.7
* Mon Dec 23 2019 Justin M. Forbes - 5.4.6-200
- Linux v5.4.6
* Thu Dec 19 2019 Justin M. Forbes - 5.4.5-300
- Linux v5.4.5
* Tue Nov 12 2019 Justin M. Forbes - 5.3.11-300
- Linux v5.3.11
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1800335 - iwlwifi: Can't parse phy_sku in B0, empty sections (missing firmware?)
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1800335
[ 2 ] Bug #1797052 - CVE-2020-9391 kernel: brk discards top byte of addresses on aarch64, causing heap corruption in glibc malloc
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1797052
[ 3 ] Bug #1772498 - Enable Sound Open Firmware (SOF) driver in Fedora for the recent Intel hardware
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1772498
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-3cd64d683c' 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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