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Fedora 34: 5.16.5 Kernel-Tools Security Advisory for Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey February 5, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent kernel-tools upgrade for Fedora 34 introduces enhanced functionalities, expanded hardware compatibility, and significant improvements in the updated 5.16.5 release.
The 5.16.5 stable kernel rebase contains new features, additional 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 5.16.5 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 rebase

[ 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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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 34
Version: 5.16.5
Release: 100.fc34
Summary: Assortment of tools for the Linux kernel

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