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Fedora 37: FEDORA-2023-3661f028b8 Moderate: Kernel Security Enhancements

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Calendar Grey July 23, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest kernel-headers upgrade for Fedora 37 improves device compatibility while addressing multiple vulnerabilities. Discover further details.
The 6.4.4 stable kernel rebase contains additional hardware support, new features, and a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

Kernel-headers includes the C header files that specify the interface

between the Linux kernel and userspace libraries and programs. The

header files define structures and constants that are needed for

building most standard programs and are also needed for rebuilding the

glibc package.

Update Information:

The 6.4.4 stable kernel rebase contains additional hardware support, new features, and a number of important fixes across the tree.

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora security fix kernel hardware support stack overflow

Change Log

* Wed Jul 19 2023 Justin M. Forbes - 6.4.4-100 - Linux v6.4.4

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2220892 - CVE-2023-35001 kernel: nf_tables: stack-out-of-bounds-read in nft_byteorder_eval() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2220892 [ 2 ] Bug #2220893 - CVE-2023-31248 kernel: nf_tables: use-after-free in nft_chain_lookup_byid() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2220893

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-3661f028b8' 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-headers
Product: Fedora 37
Version: 6.4.4
Release: 100.fc37
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora security fix kernel hardware support stack overflow

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