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Fedora 38 FEDORA-2024-f35f9525d6 Critical: Kernel Security Issue

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Calendar Grey May 3, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The 6.8.8 version of Kernel in Fedora 38 introduces vital corrections and fortified security measures, leading to improved performance and reliability.
The 6.8.8 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 6.8.8 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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security advisory security issue Fedora critical fix kernel system update

Change Log

* Sat Apr 27 2024 Justin M. Forbes [6.8.8-100] - Revert "cpupower: Bump soname version" (Justin M. Forbes) - Drop soname for libcpupower.so since we reverted the bump (Justin M. Forbes) * Sat Apr 27 2024 Justin M. Forbes [6.8.8-0] - Update BugsFixed for 6.8.8 (Justin M. Forbes) - Turn on ISM for Fedora (Justin M. Forbes) - Turn off some Fedora UBSAN options to avoid false positives (Justin M. Forbes) - fedora: aarch64: Enable a QCom Robotics platforms requirements (Peter Robinson) - Turn on UBSAN for Fedora (Justin M. Forbes) - Linux v6.8.8

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2276666 - CVE-2024-26922 kernel: drm/amdgpu: validate the parameters of bo mapping operations more clearly [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2276666 [ 2 ] Bug #2277155 - Fedora 39 - Device Driver for ISM not configured in kernel https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2277155 [ 3 ] Bug #2277170 - CVE-2024-26924 kernel: netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: do not free live element [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2277170 [ 4 ] Bug #2278253 - CVE-2024-27022 kernel: fork: defer linking file vma until vma is fully initialized [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278253 [ 5 ] Bug #2278255 - CVE-2024-27021 kernel: r8169: fix LED-related deadlock on module removal [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278255 [ 6 ] Bug #2278257 - CVE-2024-27020 kernel: netfilter: nf_tables: Fix potential data-race in __nft_expr_type_get() [fedora-all] ...

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Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-f35f9525d6' 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

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Name: kernel
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 6.8.8
Release: 100.fc38
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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