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Fedora 34: FEDORA-2021-a738172845 Security: Kernel 5.10.8 Patch

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Calendar Grey December 16, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Kernel version 5.9.14 for Fedora 33 introduces several critical improvements, boosting both system security and overall stability.
The 5.9.14 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 5.9.14 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

* Fri Dec 11 2020 Justin M. Forbes - 5.9.14-200

- Linux v5.9.14

- Fixes CVE-2020-29660 (rhbz 1906522 1906523)

- Fixes CVE-2020-29661 (rhbz 1906525 1906526)

[ 1 ] Bug #1906522 - CVE-2020-29660 kernel: locking inconsistency in drivers/tty/tty_io.c and drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c can lead to a read-after-free

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1906522

[ 2 ] Bug #1906525 - CVE-2020-29661 kernel: locking issue in drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c can lead to an use-after-free

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1906525

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-b732958765' 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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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 33
Version: 5.9.14
Release: 200.fc33
Summary: The Linux kernel

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