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Fedora 32: Critical Kernel Tools Fix Released on 2021-8cd093f639

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Calendar Grey April 26, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Kernel utilities upgrade for Fedora 32 improves safety and reliability with notable corrections.
The 5.11.16 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

This package contains the tools/ directory from the kernel source

and the supporting documentation.

The 5.11.16 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

* Wed Apr 21 2021 Justin M. Forbes - 5.11.16-100

- Linux v5.11.16

[ 1 ] Bug #1948772 - CVE-2021-23133 kernel: Race condition in sctp_destroy_sock list_del

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1948772

[ 2 ] Bug #1951595 - CVE-2021-29155 kernel: protection for sequences of pointer arithmetic operations against speculatively out-of-bounds loads can be bypassed to leak content of kernel memory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1951595

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-8cd093f639' 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: 5.11.16
Release: 100.fc32
Summary: Assortment of tools for the Linux kernel

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