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Fedora 33: FDA-2021-e0d6215753 Critical Kernel-Headers Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey October 2, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Kernel-headers enhancement for Fedora 33 addressing major bugs and introducing hardware compatibility. Refer to FDA-2021-e0d6215753 for specifics.
The 5.14.9 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

Kernel-headers includes the C header files that specify the interface

between the Linux kernel and userspace libraries and programs. The

header files define structures and constants that are needed for

building most standard programs and are also needed for rebuilding the

glibc package.

The 5.14.9 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree. ---- The 5.14.7 stable kernel rebase contains additional hardware

support, new features, and a number of important fixes across the tree.

* Thu Sep 30 2021 Justin M. Forbes - 5.14.9-100

- Linux v5.14.9

* Mon Sep 27 2021 Justin M. Forbes - 5.14.8-100

- Linux v5.14.8

* Wed Sep 22 2021 Justin M. Forbes - 5.14.7-100

- Linux v5.14.7

[ 1 ] Bug #2007567 - CVE-2021-41073 kernel: local user privilege escalation via loop_rw_iter in fs/io_uring.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2007567

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-e0d6215753' 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: 5.14.9
Release: 100.fc33
Summary: Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc

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