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Fedora 34: 5.15.11 Kernel Update Critical: Security Enhancements

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Calendar Grey December 25, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Delve into the Fedora 34 kernel upgrade 5.15.11 that bolsters system resilience through vital corrections and fortified security measures.
The 5.15.11 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 5.15.11 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

* Wed Dec 22 2021 Justin M. Forbes [5.15.11-0]

- Fix up Changelog (Justin M. Forbes)

[ 1 ] Bug #2031199 - CVE-2021-28714 CVE-2021-28715 xen: guest can force Linux netback driver to hog large amounts of kernel memory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2031199

[ 2 ] Bug #2034940 - CVE-2021-28711 CVE-2021-28712 CVE-2021-28713 xen: rogue backends can cause DoS of guests via high frequency events

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2034940

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-e6cbca1e9e' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 34
Version: 5.15.11
Release: 100.fc34
Summary: The Linux kernel

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