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Fedora 35 Kernel Update 5.17.12 Critical: Null Pointer Issue

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Apply the Fedora kernel upgrade to version 5.17.12 to address critical vulnerabilities, thereby improving system security and reliability.
The 5.17.12 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 5.17.12 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

* Mon May 30 2022 Justin M. Forbes [5.17.12-0]

- Revert "crypto: rng - Override drivers/char/random in FIPS mode" (Justin M. Forbes)

- Revert "random: Add hook to override device reads and getrandom(2)" (Justin M. Forbes)

[ 1 ] Bug #2090723 - CVE-2022-1789 kernel: x86/kvm: NULL pointer dereference in kvm_mmu_invpcid_gva

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2090723

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-3b86247c11' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 35
Version: 5.17.12
Release: 200.fc35
Summary: The Linux kernel

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