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Fedora 34 Kernel 5.13.15 Critical Fix: Race Condition in Ext4

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Calendar Grey September 14, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The kernel update 5.13.15 for Fedora 34 addresses significant problems, notably a race condition impacting the ext4 file system.
The 5.13.15 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 5.13.15 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

* Wed Sep 8 2021 Justin M. Forbes [5.13.15-200]

- kernel-5.13.15-0 (Justin M. Forbes)

[ 1 ] Bug #2001951 - CVE-2021-40490 kernel: race condition was discovered in ext4_write_inline_data_end in fs/ext4/inline.c in the ext4 subsystem

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2001951

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-4ca1b080bb' 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 34
Version: 5.13.15
Release: 200.fc34
Summary: The Linux kernel

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