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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2024-e513c6594d Moderate Kernel Security Issue

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest update for Fedora 38, featuring kernel version 6.8.9, includes critical security patches aimed at resolving multiple system vulnerabilities.
The 6.8.9 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 6.8.9 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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security advisory security issue update Fedora moderate severity kernel important fixes

Change Log

* Thu May 2 2024 Augusto Caringi [6.8.9-100] - Revert "cpupower: Bump soname version" (Justin M. Forbes) - Drop soname for libcpupower.so since we reverted the bump (Justin M. Forbes) * Thu May 2 2024 Augusto Caringi [6.8.9-0] - redhat/configs: Enable CONFIG_CPU_MITIGATIONS (Augusto Caringi) - Turn on CONFIG_RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES for Fedora (Justin M. Forbes) - drm/nouveau/dp: Don't probe eDP ports twice harder (Lyude Paul) - drm/nouveau/kms/nv50-: Disable AUX bus for disconnected DP ports (Lyude Paul) - drm/dp: Don't attempt AUX transfers when eDP panels are not powered (Douglas Anderson) - Linux v6.8.9

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2276375 - Missing randomized slab caches for normal kmalloc: enable CONFIG_RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES=y https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2276375

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-e513c6594d' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

Name: kernel
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 6.8.9
Release: 100.fc38
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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security advisory security issue update Fedora moderate severity kernel important fixes

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