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A kernel-tools 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-tools
Product : Fedora 31
Version : 5.5.6
Release : 200.fc31
URL :   http://www.kernel.org/
Summary : Assortment of tools for the Linux kernel
Description :
This package contains the tools/ directory from the kernel source
and the supporting documentation.

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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 Dec 31 2019 Justin M. Forbes - 5.4.7-200
- Linux v5.4.7
* 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
* Wed Nov 6 2019 Laura Abbott - 5.3.9-300
- Linux v5.3.9
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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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  https://fedoraproject.org/keys