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Fedora 39: Crucial 6.7.5 Update to Address DoS Vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey February 22, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Delve into the recent kernel version 6.7.5 of Fedora, which brings vital enhancements that bolster system stability and mitigate potential denial-of-service vulnerabilities.
The 6.7.5 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 6.7.5 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora DoS kernel system patch

Change Log

* Sat Feb 17 2024 Justin M. Forbes [6.7.5-0] - Backported some CVE fixes lets note them in BugsFixed (Justin M. Forbes) - selftests: openvswitch: Add validation for the recursion test (Aaron Conole) - net: openvswitch: limit the number of recursions from action sets (Aaron Conole) - dm: limit the number of targets and parameter size area (Mikulas Patocka) - Add btrfs bug for 6.7.5 (Justin M. Forbes) - btrfs: don't refill whole delayed refs block reserve when starting transaction (Filipe Manana) - Add 6.7.5 fix to BugsFixed (Justin M. Forbes) - drm/amd: Stop evicting resources on APUs in suspend (Mario Limonciello) - Revert "drm/amd: flush any delayed gfxoff on suspend entry" (Mario Limonciello) - smb: client: set correct id, uid and cruid for multiuser automounts (Paulo Alcantara) - Turn off CONFIG_INTEL_VSC for Fedora (Justin M. Forbes) - platform/x86: Support for mode FN key (Mark Pearson) - Linux v6.7.5

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2262241 - CVE-2024-1151 kernel: stack overflow problem in Open vSwitch kernel module leading to DoS https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2262241 [ 2 ] Bug #2263856 - CVE-2023-52429 kernel: missing check for struct in dm-table.c can cause a crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2263856

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-88847bc77a' 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: 6.7.5
Release: 200.fc39
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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security advisory update critical Fedora DoS kernel system patch

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