Fedora 34: 2022-edbd74424e Critical Advisory: Kernel Privilege Escalation

The kernel meta package

The 5.16.11 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

* Wed Feb 23 2022 Justin M. Forbes [5.16.11-0]

- spec: don't overwrite auto.conf with .config (Ondrej Mosnacek)

- New configs for 5.16.10 (Justin M. Forbes)

[ 1 ] Bug #2043520 - CVE-2022-23222 kernel: local privileges escalation in kernel/bpf/verifier.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2043520

[ 2 ] Bug #2044578 - CVE-2022-0500 kernel: Linux ebpf logic vulnerability leads to critical memory read and write gaining root privileges

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2044578

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-edbd74424e' 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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