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Fedora 37: 2023-50bd7c9c12 Critical: Kernel 6.5.6 Update

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Calendar Grey October 10, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent update for Fedora 37 with kernel 6.5.6 introduces essential patches that resolve various identified vulnerabilities.
The 6.5.6 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 6.5.6 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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security advisory Fedora kernel system update critical fixes

Change Log

* Fri Oct 6 2023 Augusto Caringi [6.5.6-0] - power: supply: core: Use blocking_notifier_call_chain to avoid RCU complaint (Kai-Heng Feng) - Revert "Add linux-next specific files for 20231004" (Justin M. Forbes) - redhat/configs: enable missing Kconfig options for Qualcomm RideSX4 (Brian Masney) - add a couple of CVEs to BugsFixed (Justin M. Forbes) - Add another F39 FE bug to BugsFixed (Justin M. Forbes) - Add linux-next specific files for 20231004 (Stephen Rothwell) - common: aarch64: enable NXP Flex SPI (Peter Robinson) - fedora: Switch TI_SCI_CLK and TI_SCI_PM_DOMAINS symbols to built-in (Javier Martinez Canillas) - Add bug for amdgpu to BugsFixed for 6.5.6 (Justin M. Forbes) - drm/amdgpu: set completion status as preempted for the resubmission (Jiadong Zhu) - Add CVE-2023-42756 to BugsFixed for 6.5.6 (Justin M. Forbes) - Linux v6.5.6

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2239845 - CVE-2023-42754 kernel: ipv4: NULL pointer dereference in ipv4_send_dest_unreach() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239845 [ 2 ] Bug #2239848 - CVE-2023-42756 kernel: netfilter: race condition between IPSET_CMD_ADD and IPSET_CMD_SWAP https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239848 [ 3 ] Bug #2242172 - CVE-2023-5345 kernel: use-after-free vulnerability in the smb client component https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242172

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-50bd7c9c12' 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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Name: kernel
Product: Fedora 37
Version: 6.5.6
Release: 100.fc37
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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