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Fedora 36: 2022-e9378a3573 Critical: Kernel 5.17.6 Security Update

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Kernel 5.17.6 for Fedora 36 resolves significant vulnerabilities with essential updates aimed at improving system efficiency.
The 5.17.6 stable kernel updates contain a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 5.17.6 stable kernel updates contain a number of important fixes across the

tree.

* Mon May 9 2022 Justin M. Forbes [5.17.6-0]

- fedora: arm: Enable new Rockchip 356x series drivers (Peter Robinson)

- fedora: arm: enable DRM_I2C_NXP_TDA998X on aarch64 (Peter Robinson)

- Add config entry for CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD_RAWCMD (Justin M. Forbes)

- Update changelog (Justin M. Forbes)

* Thu Apr 28 2022 Justin M. Forbes [5.17.5-0]

- Linux v5.17.5

[ 1 ] Bug #2080330 - kernel: Concurrency use-after-free in floppy's raw_cmd

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2080330

[ 2 ] Bug #2080940 - CVE-2022-29968 kernel: io_rw_init_file in fs/io_uring.c lacks initialization of kiocb->private

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2080940

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-e9378a3573' 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

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 36
Version: 5.17.6
Release: 300.fc36
Summary: The Linux kernel

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