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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2023-48c43df788 Critical: fwupd Firmware Update

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Calendar Grey October 9, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent fwupd update in Fedora 38 introduces enhanced security measures and various bug corrections aimed at optimizing firmware performance across devices.
This release adds the following features: * Add a launchd agent for macOS * Add a new security attribute for BIOS capsule updates to be enabled * Add functionality to fix specific...

Summary

fwupd is a daemon to allow session software to update device firmware.

Update Information:

This release adds the following features: * Add a launchd agent for macOS * Add a new security attribute for BIOS capsule updates to be enabled * Add functionality to fix specific host security attributes * Add global information from the context into the report data * Add support for coSWID payload sections * Add support for parsing the EDID * Allow adding only-quirk instance IDs from quirk files * Install a sysusers.d systemd file when using -Dsystemd_unit_user This release fixes the following bugs: * Allow devices to require a connected display * Allow Wacom modules to specify a status polling interval * Do not show Intel CET unsupported as success * Do not show multiple Genesys GL32xx devices for the same physical device * Fix a fuzzing timeout in the HID descriptor parser * Recalculate the SUPPORTED flag after adopting a child device * Reduce the amount of memory used when chunking large firmware * Speed up logitech-bulkcontroller firmware updates ...

Change Log

* Fri Oct 6 2023 Richard Hughes - 1.9.6-1 - New upstream release

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2023-48c43df788 2023-10-09 01:54:42.687400 Name : fwupd Product : Fedora 38 Version : 1.9.6 Release : 1.fc38 URL : https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd Summary : Firmware update daemon Description : fwupd is a daemon to allow session software to update device firmware.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-48c43df788' 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: fwupd
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 1.9.6
Release: 1.fc38
Summary: Firmware update daemon

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