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Fedora 39: 2024-33a9ea72d1 Critical: Kernel Fixes and Updates

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Calendar Grey April 13, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Dive into the updates surrounding Fedora's kernel version 6.8.5, which unveils pivotal security patches along with enhancements designed to boost performance and improve system stability.

The 6.8.5 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 6.8.5 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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security advisory Fedora kernel fix performance enhancement stable release bug report

Change Log

* Thu Apr 11 2024 Justin M. Forbes [6.8.5-201] - Revert "cpupower: Bump soname version" (Justin M. Forbes) - Drop soname for libcpupower.so since we reverted the bump (Justin M. Forbes) - nouveau: fix devinit paths to only handle display on GSP. (Dave Airlie) - Add bluetooth bug to Bugsfixed for 6.8.6 (Justin M. Forbes) - Bluetooth: l2cap: Don't double set the HCI_CONN_MGMT_CONNECTED bit (Archie Pusaka) * Wed Apr 10 2024 Justin M. Forbes [6.8.5-0] - Set configs for SPECTRE_BHI (Justin M. Forbes) - Add AMD PMF bug (Justin M. Forbes) - redhat/configs: Enable CONFIG_AMDTEE for x86 (David Arcari) - Add CVE fix for 6.8.5 (Justin M. Forbes) - Linux v6.8.5

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2273968 - CVE-2024-26811 kernel: ksmbd: validate payload size in ipc response [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2273968 [ 2 ] Bug #2274047 - Bluetooth headset partially connects under some circumstances with blues 5.73-3.fc40.x86_64 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2274047 [ 3 ] Bug #2274069 - AMD-PMF driver fails to load on kernel- 6.8.4-300.fc40.x86_64. Resulting in GPU failing to use full gpu available watts. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2274069

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-33a9ea72d1' 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 39
Version: 6.8.5
Release: 201.fc39
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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security advisory Fedora kernel fix performance enhancement stable release bug report

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