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Fedora 39: 2024-f797f1540e Critical: Bluetooth Null Dereference Fix

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Calendar Grey March 13, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The 6.7.9 kernel update for Fedora 39 brings essential repairs targeting Bluetooth issues alongside other critical security flaws.
The 6.7.9 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 6.7.9 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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security advisory fedora kernel update critical fix system patch bluetooth issue

Change Log

* Wed Mar 6 2024 Augusto Caringi [6.7.9-0] - Add some CVE fixes for 6.7.9 (Justin M. Forbes) - Bluetooth: rfcomm: Fix null-ptr-deref in rfcomm_check_security (Yuxuan Hu) - Linux v6.7.9 * Sun Mar 3 2024 Justin M. Forbes [6.7.8-0] - Linux v6.7.8

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2267701 - CVE-2024-22099 kernel: NULL Pointer dereference bluetooth allows Overflow Buffers https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2267701 [ 2 ] Bug #2267721 - CVE-2024-26622 kernel: tomoyo: fix UAF write bug in tomoyo_write_control() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2267721

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-f797f1540e' 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: 6.7.9
Release: 200.fc39
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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