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Fedora 37: 2023-f4f9182dc8 Critical: Kernel Remote DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey January 15, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Linux 6.1.5 kernel update enhances performance by introducing fresh functionalities and essential corrections to Fedora 37 platforms.
The 6.1.5 stable kernel rebase contains new features, enhanced hardware support, and a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

The 6.1.5 stable kernel rebase contains new features, enhanced hardware support,

and a number of important fixes across the tree.

* Thu Jan 12 2023 Justin M. Forbes [6.1.5-0]

- KVM: VMX: Execute IBPB on emulated VM-exit when guest has IBRS (Jim Mattson)

- Update module filters for nvmem_u-boot-env (Justin M. Forbes)

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

- fedora: Updates for 6.1 merge (Peter Robinson)

- Linux v6.1.5

[ 1 ] Bug #2152807 - CVE-2022-4379 kernel: use-after-free in __nfs42_ssc_open() in fs/nfs/nfs4file.c leading to remote Denial of Service attack

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2152807

[ 2 ] Bug #2160023 - CVE-2022-2196 kernel: KVM: nVMX: missing IBPB when exiting from nested guest can lead to Spectre v2 attacks

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160023

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-f4f9182dc8' 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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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 37
Version: 6.1.5
Release: 200.fc37
Summary: The Linux kernel

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