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Fedora 39: 2024-2116a8468b Moderate Kernel-Headers Enhancement

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Calendar Grey February 6, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Enhance your Fedora 39 experience with the kernel-headers upgrade 2024-2116a8468, boosting functionalities and improving hardware compatibility significantly
The 6.7.3 stable kernel rebase contains new features, improved hardware support, and a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

Kernel-headers includes the C header files that specify the interface

between the Linux kernel and userspace libraries and programs. The

header files define structures and constants that are needed for

building most standard programs and are also needed for rebuilding the

glibc package.

Update Information:

The 6.7.3 stable kernel rebase contains new features, improved hardware support, and a number of important fixes across the tree.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora moderate severity software enhancement hardware support kernel headers

Change Log

* Thu Feb 1 2024 Justin M. Forbes - 6.7.3-1 - Linux v6.7.3

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2253986 - CVE-2023-6679 kernel: NULL pointer dereference in dpll_pin_parent_pin_set() in drivers/dpll/dpll_netlink.c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253986 [ 2 ] Bug #2260041 - CVE-2024-23849 kernel: off-by-one error for an RDS_MSG_RX_DGRAM_TRACE_MAX comparison, resulting in out-of-bounds access https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2260041 [ 3 ] Bug #2262126 - CVE-2024-1086 kernel: nf_tables: use-after-free vulnerability in the nft_verdict_init() function https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2262126

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-2116a8468b' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

Name: kernel-headers
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 6.7.3
Release: 200.fc39
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora moderate severity software enhancement hardware support kernel headers

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