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Fedora 34 Kernel-Tools Update 5.17.4: Major Enhancements and Fixes

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Calendar Grey April 24, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 34 showcases new updates for its kernel tools, delivering improvements and solutions aimed at boosting performance and reliability.
The 5.17.4 kernel rebase contains new features, improved hardware support, and a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

This package contains the tools/ directory from the kernel source

and the supporting documentation.

The 5.17.4 kernel rebase contains new features, improved hardware support, and a

number of important fixes across the tree.

* Wed Apr 20 2022 Justin M. Forbes - 5.17.4-100

- Linux v5.17.4 rebase

[ 1 ] Bug #2031194 - CVE-2021-4095 kernel: KVM: NULL pointer dereference in kvm_dirty_ring_get() in virt/kvm/dirty_ring.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2031194

[ 2 ] Bug #2039178 - CVE-2021-4204 kernel: improper input validation may lead to privilege escalation

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2039178

[ 3 ] Bug #2071051 - CVE-2022-1204 kernel: Use after free in net/ax25/af_ax25.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2071051

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-0816754490' 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: 5.17.4
Release: 100.fc34
Summary: Assortment of tools for the Linux kernel

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