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Fedora 38 6.6.6 : Urgent kernel update restores cfg80211

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Calendar Grey December 14, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora update brings Kernel version 6.6.6, which tackles major bugs while reinstating the cfg80211 fix. Discover further details here.
The 6.6.6 stable kernel update reverts the problematic cfg80211 patch that was brought into the 6.6.5 kernel ---- The 6.6.5 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixe...

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 6.6.6 stable kernel update reverts the problematic cfg80211 patch that was brought into the 6.6.5 kernel ---- The 6.6.5 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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security advisory kernel update Fedora patch critical fix cfg80211

Change Log

* Mon Dec 11 2023 Augusto Caringi [6.6.6-0] - redhat/configs: Enable UCLAMP_TASK for PipeWire and WirePlumber (Neal Gompa) - Linux v6.6.6 * Fri Dec 8 2023 Augusto Caringi [6.6.5-0] - Add io_uring CVE for 6.6.5 (Justin M. Forbes) - Linux v6.6.5

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2253249 - CVE-2023-6560 kernel: io_uring out of boundary memory access in __io_uaddr_map() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253249

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-a8afe852a3' 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: 6.6.6
Release: 100.fc38
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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security advisory kernel update Fedora patch critical fix cfg80211

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