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Fedora 35: 2021-a7a558062e Critical: Kernel Memory Access Issue

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Calendar Grey December 31, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Addressed critical concerns in Fedora 35's kernel 5.15.12 to improve overall system resilience and implementations to protect against memory vulnerabilities.
The 5..15..12 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 5..15..12 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across

the tree.

* Wed Dec 29 2021 Justin M. Forbes [5.15.12-0]

- iwlwifi: mvm: Increase the scan timeout guard to 30 seconds (Ilan Peer)

[ 1 ] Bug #2035817 - CVE-2021-45469 kernel: out-of-bounds memory access in __f2fs_setxattr() in fs/f2fs/xattr.c when an inode has an invalid last xattr entry

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2035817

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-a7a558062e' 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 35
Version: 5.15.12
Release: 200.fc35
Summary: The Linux kernel

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