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Fedora 40: FEDORA-2024-811cffc4ef critical: bpftool memory access

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Calendar Grey December 16, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Recent Fedora Update Alert for bpftool addresses memory handling problems, featuring improvements in the kernel and additional revisions.
The 6.12.4 stable kernel rebase contains new features, additional hardware support and a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

This package contains the bpftool, which allows inspection and simple

manipulation of eBPF programs and maps.

Update Information:

The 6.12.4 stable kernel rebase contains new features, additional hardware support and a number of important fixes across the tree.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update Fedora memory access kernel rebase bpftool

Change Log

* Thu Nov 21 2024 Viktor Malik - 7.5.0-1 - Create the package

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2322092 - CVE-2024-50067 kernel: uprobe: avoid out-of-bounds memory access of fetching args [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2322092

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-811cffc4ef' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: bpftool
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 7.5.0
Release: 1.fc40
URL: https://github.com/libbpf/bpftool
Summary: Inspection and simple manipulation of eBPF programs and maps

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update Fedora memory access kernel rebase bpftool

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