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Fedora 32 5.11.10 Critical: Kernel Buffer Overflow Notification

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Kernel enhancement 5.11.10 revises several commits resulting in log alerts and corrections throughout Fedora platforms. Discover the specifics today.
The 5.11.10 stable kernel update contains a "quick revert" of some 5.11.9 commits that caused noisy warnings to show up in the kernel log of some systems

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 5.11.10 stable kernel update contains a "quick revert" of some 5.11.9

commits that caused noisy warnings to show up in the kernel log of some systems.

---- The 5.11.9 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree. ---- The 5.11.8 stable kernel update contains a number of important

fixes across the tree.

* Thu Mar 25 2021 Justin M. Forbes [5.11.10-12]

- drm/i915/tgl/psr: Disable PSR on Tigerlake for now (Lyude Paul)

- Fedora: Turn off the SND_INTEL_BYT_PREFER_SOF option (Hans de Goede)

- ASoC: intel: atom: Stop advertising non working S24LE support (Hans de Goede)

- fix up RHEL config (Justin M. Forbes)

* Wed Mar 24 2021 Justin M. Forbes [5.11.9-11]

- KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Save and restore FSCR in the P9 path (Fabiano Rosas)

- drm/nouveau/kms/nve4-nv108: Don't advertise 256x256 cursor support yet (Lyude Paul)

- platform/x86: intel-vbtn: Stop reporting SW_DOCK events (Hans de Goede)

- platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Cleanup create_attributes_level_sysfs_files() (Hans de Goede)

- platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Make sysman_init() return -ENODEV of the interfaces are not found (Hans de Goede)

- platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Cleanup sysman_init() error-exit handling (Hans de Goede)

- platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Fix release_attributes_data() getting called twice on init_bios_attributes() failure (Hans de Goede)

- platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Make it safe to call exit_foo_attributes() multiple times (Hans de Goede)

- platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Fix possible NULL pointer deref on exit (Hans de Goede)

- platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Fix crash caused by calling kset_unregister twice (Hans de Goede)

- platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Disable DYTC CQL mode around switching to balanced mode (Hans de Goede)

- platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Allow the FnLock LED to change state (Esteve Varela Colominas)

- platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: check dytc version for lapmode sysfs (Mark Pearson)

- platform/x86: intel-hid: Support Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Tablet Gen 2 (Alban Bedel)

* Sun Mar 21 2021 Justin M. Forbes [5.11.8-10]

- This is a released kernel branch (Justin M. Forbes)

[ 1 ] Bug #1940623 - CVE-2020-27171 kernel: Integer underflow when restricting speculative pointer arithmetic

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1940623

[ 2 ] Bug #1940627 - CVE-2020-27170 kernel: Speculation on pointer arithmetic against bpf_context pointer

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1940627

[ 3 ] Bug #1941769 - CVE-2021-28951 kernel: DoS because of deadlock in fs/io_uring.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1941769

[ 4 ] Bug #1941774 - CVE-2021-28952 kernel: buffer overflow in sound/soc/qcom/sdm845.c when an unexpected port ID number is encountered

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1941774

[ 5 ] Bug #1941781 - CVE-2021-28972 kernel: Buffer overflow in hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1941781

[ 6 ] Bug #1941784 - CVE-2021-28971 kernel: System crash in intel_pmu_drain_pebs_nhm in arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1941784

[ 7 ] Bug #1941804 - CVE-2021-28964 kernel: race condition in get_old_root function in fs/btrfs/ctree.c because of a lack of locking on an extent buffer before a cloning operation

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1941804

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-9503fffad9' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 32
Version: 5.11.10
Release: 100.fc32
Summary: The Linux kernel

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