Fedora 40: SECURITY-2024-873e2cb5f2 Critical: Kernel Security Update
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August 1, 2024
The 6.9.12 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.
Summary
The kernel meta package
Update Information:
The 6.9.12 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Sat Jul 27 2024 Justin M. Forbes
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2300866 - CVE-2024-41015 kernel: ocfs2: add bounds checking to ocfs2_check_dir_entry() [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2300866
[ 2 ] Bug #2300879 - CVE-2024-41017 kernel: jfs: don't walk off the end of ealist [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2300879
[ 3 ] Bug #2300885 - CVE-2024-41018 kernel: fs/ntfs3: Add a check for attr_names and oatbl [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2300885
[ 4 ] Bug #2300890 - CVE-2024-41019 kernel: fs/ntfs3: Validate ff offset [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2300890
[ 5 ] Bug #2300897 - CVE-2024-41021 kernel: s390/mm: Fix VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling in do_exception() [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2300897
[ 6 ] Bug #2300901 - CVE-2024-41020 kernel: filelock: Fix fcntl/close race recovery compat path [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23...
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-873e2cb5f2' 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: kernel
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 6.9.12
Release: 200.fc40
Summary: The Linux kernel
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