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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2023-ee241dcf80 Critical: Kernel Security Update

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Calendar Grey August 14, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Ubuntu 23.04 kernel 5.15.27 upgrade introduces essential performance improvements and security enhancements that bolster overall system reliability.
The 6.4.10 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 6.4.10 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora critical fix security patch kernel system stability KVM bug

Change Log

* Fri Aug 11 2023 Justin M. Forbes [6.4.10-0] - More security bug fixes for 6.4.10 (Justin M. Forbes) - KVM: SEV: remove ghcb variable declarations (Paolo Bonzini) - KVM: SEV: only access GHCB fields once (Paolo Bonzini) - KVM: SEV: snapshot the GHCB before accessing it (Paolo Bonzini) - Add another bug fixed by the 6.4.10 release (Justin M. Forbes) - drm/amd/display: Fix a regression on Polaris cards (Mario Limonciello) - redhat/configs: Remove `CONFIG_HZ_1000 is not set` for aarch64 (Enric Balletbo i Serra) - Add new CVEs fixed in 6.4.9 to BugsFixed (Justin M. Forbes) - Linux v6.4.10

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2213802 - CVE-2023-4155 kernel: KVM: SEV-ES / SEV-SNP VMGEXIT double fetch vulnerability https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213802 [ 2 ] Bug #2221609 - CVE-2023-4273 kernel: exFAT: stack overflow in exfat_get_uniname_from_ext_entry https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2221609 [ 3 ] Bug #2225511 - CVE-2023-4128 Kernel: net/sched: Use-after-free vulnerabilities in the net/sched classifiers: cls_fw, cls_u32 and cls_route https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2225511 [ 4 ] Bug #2229498 - CVE-2023-4194 kernel: tap: tap_open(): correctly initialize socket uid next fix of i_uid to current_fsuid https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2229498

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-ee241dcf80' 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: 6.4.10
Release: 200.fc38
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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security advisory Fedora critical fix security patch kernel system stability KVM bug

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