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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2024-c4ec5006e3 critical: kernel pointer error fix

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Calendar Grey January 22, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Ubuntu Kernel release 22.04.5 addresses critical memory leaks and incorporates vital enhancements.
The 6.6.12 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 6.6.12 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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security advisory critical issue update Fedora kernel fix null pointer

Change Log

* Mon Jan 15 2024 Augusto Caringi [6.6.12-0] - Add CVE Fixes to BugsFixed for 6.6.12 (Justin M. Forbes) - ida: Fix crash in ida_free when the bitmap is empty (Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)) - wifi: ath10k: fix NULL pointer dereference in ath10k_wmi_tlv_op_pull_mgmt_tx_compl_ev() (Xingyuan Mo) - Linux v6.6.12

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2255497 - CVE-2023-7042 kernel: null pointer dereference in ath10k_wmi_tlv_op_pull_mgmt_tx_compl_ev() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255497

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-c4ec5006e3' 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: 6.6.12
Release: 100.fc38
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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security advisory critical issue update Fedora kernel fix null pointer

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