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Fedora 39: FEDORA-2024-b69e4dc8f2 Major Kernel Enhancement Released

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Calendar Grey April 17, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest kernel revision for Fedora 39 tackles major vulnerabilities, providing essential patches that enhance both the system's reliability and overall safety.
The 6.8.6 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 6.8.6 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora software patch kernel system fix

Change Log

* Sat Apr 13 2024 Justin M. Forbes [6.8.6-200] - Revert "cpupower: Bump soname version" (Justin M. Forbes) - Drop soname for libcpupower.so since we reverted the bump (Justin M. Forbes) * Sat Apr 13 2024 Justin M. Forbes [6.8.6-0] - 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) - Linux v6.8.6

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2274990 - CVE-2024-26817 kernel: amdkfd: use calloc instead of kzalloc to avoid integer overflow [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2274990

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-f93cdd8831' 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: 6.8.6
Release: 200.fc39
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora software patch kernel system fix

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