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Fedora 33: Critical Stack Pointer Security Flaw in Kernel-Tools Revealed

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Calendar Grey May 12, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The kernel-tools upgrade for Fedora 33 brings vital enhancements and tackles vulnerabilities related to stack pointer management.
The 5.11.9 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

This package contains the tools/ directory from the kernel source

and the supporting documentation.

The 5.11.9 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

* Fri May 7 2021 Justin M. Forbes - 5.11.19-200

- Linux v5.11.19

* Thu May 6 2021 Jiri Olsa

- Remove libbpf package

* Thu May 6 2021 Justin M. Forbes

- Build and package intel-speed-select (rhbz 1882427)

[ 1 ] Bug #1957788 - CVE-2021-31829 kernel: protection of stack pointer against speculative pointer arithmetic can be bypassed to leak content of kernel memory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1957788

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-7c085ca697' 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

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Product: Fedora 33
Version: 5.11.19
Release: 200.fc33
Summary: Assortment of tools for the Linux kernel

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