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Fedora 35: 2022-8efcea6e67 Critical Update For Kernel Tools

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Explore the latest enhancements in Fedora 35's kernel-tools, bringing vital updates and innovative features that improve hardware compatibility and overall performance.
The 5.17.4 kernel rebase contains new features, improved 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 5.17.4 kernel rebase contains new features, improved hardware support, and a

number of important fixes across the tree.

* Wed Apr 20 2022 Justin M. Forbes - 5.17.4-200

- Linux v5.17.4 rebase

[ 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: Assortment of tools for the Linux kernel

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