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Fedora 33: FEDORA-2020-98ccae320c Critical: Kernel 5.9.8 Enhancements

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Kernel 5.9.8 release for Fedora 33 includes enhanced hardware compatibility, upgraded functionalities, and important bug fixes. Ensure to upgrade your system immediately!
The 5.9.8 stable kernel rebase contains a number of enhancements including new hardware support, additional features, and a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 5.9.8 stable kernel rebase contains a number of enhancements including new

hardware support, additional features, and a number of important fixes across

the tree.

* Tue Nov 10 2020 Justin M. Forbes - 5.9.8-200

- Linux v5.9.8

* Tue Nov 10 2020 - 5.9.7-200

- Linux v5.9.7 rebase

- Fixes CVE-2020-25668 (rhbz 1893287 1893288)

- Fixes CVE-2020-27673 (rhbz 1891110 1891112)

- Fixes CVE-2020-25704 (rhbz 1895951 1895963)

[ 1 ] Bug #1888726 - CVE-2020-25656 kernel: use-after-free in read in vt_do_kdgkb_ioctl

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1888726

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-98ccae320c' 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 33
Version: 5.9.8
Release: 200.fc33
Summary: The Linux kernel

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