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Fedora 34: 2021-90083c9c0f Critical: Kernel 5.11.7 DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey March 19, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The release of Kernel 5.11.7 for Fedora 34 introduces critical updates aimed at improving security and system resilience.
The 5.11.7 stable kernel update contains a number if important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 5.11.7 stable kernel update contains a number if important fixes across the

tree.

* Wed Mar 17 2021 Justin M. Forbes [5.11.7-300]

- This is a released kernel branch (Justin M. Forbes)

* Wed Mar 17 2021 Justin M. Forbes [5.11.7-9]

- Disable weak-modules again rhbz 1828455 (Justin M. Forbes)

- More config updates for gcc-plugin turn off (Justin M. Forbes)

- fedora: the PCH_CAN driver is x86-32 only (Peter Robinson)

- common: disable legacy CAN device support (Peter Robinson)

- common: Enable Microchip MCP251x/MCP251xFD CAN controllers (Peter Robinson)

- common: Bosch MCAN support for Intel Elkhart Lake (Peter Robinson)

- common: enable CAN_PEAK_PCIEFD PCI-E driver (Peter Robinson)

- common: disable CAN_PEAK_PCIEC PCAN-ExpressCard (Peter Robinson)

- common: enable common CAN layer 2 protocols (Peter Robinson)

- ark: disable CAN_LEDS option (Peter Robinson)

[ 1 ] Bug #1939164 - CVE-2021-28375 kernel: fastrpc_internal_invoke in drivers/misc/fastrpc.c does not prevent user applications from sending kernel RPC messages

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939164

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-90083c9c0f' 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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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 34
Version: 5.11.7
Release: 300.fc34
Summary: The Linux kernel

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