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Fedora 33: 2021-e71c033f88 Critical: Kernel Update Addresses Local Threats

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Calendar Grey April 14, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Explore the Fedora 34 kernel enhancement featuring vital patches, local security measures, and boosts in efficiency.
The 5.11.13 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 5.11.13 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

* Sat Apr 10 2021 Justin M. Forbes [5.11.13-200]

- Add CONFIG_NVIDIA_CARMEL_CNP_ERRATUM to RHEL configs too (Justin M. Forbes)

- Add config for CONFIG_NVIDIA_CARMEL_CNP_ERRATUM (Justin M. Forbes)

* Sat Apr 10 2021 Justin M. Forbes [5.11.13-15]

- Re-enable PSR2 on Tigerlake with new workarounds from Intel (Lyude Paul)

- Fedora: Enable CHARGER_GPIO on aarch64 too (Peter Robinson)

- Fix build with patch for CVE-2021-30178 (Justin M. Forbes)

- KVM: x86: hyper-v: Fix Hyper-V context null-ptr-deref (Wanpeng Li)

[ 1 ] Bug #1946684 - CVE-2021-29154 kernel: Local privilege escalation due to incorrect BPF JIT branch displacement computation

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1946684

[ 2 ] Bug #1947139 - CVE-2021-30178 kernel: NULL pointer dereference in synic_get function in arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c for certain accesses to the SynIC Hyper-V context

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1947139

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-e71c033f88' 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: 5.11.13
Release: 200.fc33
Summary: The Linux kernel

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