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Fedora 35: 2022-8efcea6e67 Moderate: Kernel 5.17.4 Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey April 24, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The 5.17.4 kernel update enhances system performance and optimizes device compatibility for Fedora 35 users.
The 5.17.4 kernel rebase contains new features, improved hardware support, and a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

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 [5.17.4-0]

- Add F34 and F35 as release targets (Justin M. Forbes)

- Revert "net: bcmgenet: Use stronger register read/writes to assure ordering" (Justin M. Forbes)

[ 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-2022-8efcea6e67' 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: 5.17.4
Release: 200.fc35
Summary: The Linux kernel

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