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Fedora 34: 2022-667a5c6e26 Critical Update for kernel-headers

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Calendar Grey February 5, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent kernel-headers upgrade for Fedora 34 introduces significant features and essential patches, improving compatibility with a wider range of hardware.
The 5.16.5 stable kernel rebase contains new features, additional hardware support, 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 5.16.5 stable kernel rebase contains new features, additional hardware

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

* Tue Feb 1 2022 Justin M. Forbes - 5.16.5-100

- Linux v5.16.5

[ 1 ] Bug #2048492 - CVE-2022-24122 kernel: use-after-free and privilege escalation in kernel/ucount.c when unprivileged user namespaces are enabled

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2048492

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-667a5c6e26' 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: 5.16.5
Release: 100.fc34
Summary: Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc

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