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Fedora 33: 2021-e49da8a226 Moderate: Kernel Stability Enhancements

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Key enhancements in Fedora 33 with kernel version 5.11.8 involve significant corrections aimed at boosting system resilience and safety.
The 5.11.8 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 5.11.8 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

* 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 #1941762 - CVE-2021-28950 kernel: fuse: stall on CPU can occur because a retry loop continually finds the same bad inode

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1941762

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-e49da8a226' 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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Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 33
Version: 5.11.8
Release: 200.fc33
Summary: The Linux kernel

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