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Fedora 36 Kernel-Tools Update: Critical Fixes for Stability Issues

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Kernel enhancements for Fedora 36 bring vital improvements for system reliability and efficiency. Stay informed on the newest updates and enhancements.
The 5.17.6 stable kernel updates contain a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

This package contains the tools/ directory from the kernel source

and the supporting documentation.

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

tree.

* Mon May 9 2022 Justin M. Forbes - 5.17.6-300

- Linux v5.17.6

[ 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

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Product: Fedora 36
Version: 5.17.6
Release: 300.fc36
Summary: Assortment of tools for the Linux kernel

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