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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2023-830d9ec624 critical: Kernel Update Fixes Issues

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Calendar Grey October 10, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Crucial kernel enhancement for Fedora 38 addressing various bugs and improving overall system reliability: FEDORA-2023-9d2f3afb24
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 kernel update Fedora system stability bug fixes critical issues stable release

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-2023-830d9ec624' 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 38
Version: 6.5.6
Release: 200.fc38
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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security advisory kernel update Fedora system stability bug fixes critical issues stable release

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