Fedora 35: 5.17.11 Advisory Critical: Kernel Privilege Escalation Fix

The kernel meta package

The 5.17.11 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree.

* Wed May 25 2022 Justin M. Forbes [5.17.11-0]

- Linux v5.17.11 (Justin M. Forbes)

* Wed May 25 2022 Justin M. Forbes [5.17.11-0]

- Linux v5.17.11

* Wed May 25 2022 Justin M. Forbes [5.17.10-0]

- fedora: Re-enable efifb and vesafb drivers (Javier Martinez Canillas)

- drivers/firmware: skip simpledrm if nvidia-drm.modeset=1 is set (Javier Martinez Canillas)

[ 1 ] Bug #2086753 - CVE-2022-1729 kernel: race condition in perf_event_open leads to privilege escalation

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2086753

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-b2cde267d9' 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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