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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2024-5db5954a5e Moderate: Kernel Fixes and Updates

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Calendar Grey March 13, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The 6.7.9 kernel upgrade for Fedora 38 addresses critical bugs and boosts overall system efficiency.
The 6.7.9 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 6.7.9 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora software upgrade kernel fix system update bluetooth issue

Change Log

* Wed Mar 6 2024 Augusto Caringi [6.7.9-0] - Add some CVE fixes for 6.7.9 (Justin M. Forbes) - Bluetooth: rfcomm: Fix null-ptr-deref in rfcomm_check_security (Yuxuan Hu) - Linux v6.7.9 * Sun Mar 3 2024 Justin M. Forbes [6.7.8-0] - Linux v6.7.8

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2267701 - CVE-2024-22099 kernel: NULL Pointer dereference bluetooth allows Overflow Buffers https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2267701 [ 2 ] Bug #2267721 - CVE-2024-26622 kernel: tomoyo: fix UAF write bug in tomoyo_write_control() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2267721

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-5db5954a5e' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

Name: kernel
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 6.7.9
Release: 100.fc38
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora software upgrade kernel fix system update bluetooth issue

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