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Fedora 34: FEDORA-2021-eab8c5a263 Critical: Kernel-Headers DoS Fix

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Calendar Grey November 26, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The kernel-headers package for Fedora 34 introduces significant upgrades, fresh functionalities, and essential patches aimed at bolstering hardware compatibility.
The 5.15.4 stable kernel rebase contains improved hardware support, new features, and a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

Kernel-headers includes the C header files that specify the interface

between the Linux kernel and userspace libraries and programs. The

header files define structures and constants that are needed for

building most standard programs and are also needed for rebuilding the

glibc package.

The 5.15.4 stable kernel rebase contains improved hardware support, new

features, and a number of important fixes across the tree.

* Mon Nov 22 2021 Justin M. Forbes - 5.15.4-100

- Linux v5.15.4

[ 1 ] Bug #2024989 - CVE-2021-43975 kernel: out-of-bounds write in hw_atl_utils_fw_rpc_wait() in drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/hw_atl/hw_atl_utils.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024989

[ 2 ] Bug #2025003 - CVE-2021-43976 kernel: mwifiex_usb_recv() in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/usb.c allows an attacker to cause DoS via crafted USB device

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025003

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-eab8c5a263' 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: 5.15.4
Release: 100.fc34
Summary: Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc

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