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Fedora 40: 2024-92664ae6fe Moderate: Kernel Update Security Issues

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Calendar Grey May 22, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Crucial kernel upgrade for Fedora 40 tackles significant security vulnerabilities and enhances overall system efficiency.
The 6.8.10 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 6.8.10 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

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Topics Covered

security advisory kernel update Fedora moderate severity security issues performance fix

Change Log

* Fri May 17 2024 Augusto Caringi [6.8.10-0] - redhat/configs: Enable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES (Augusto Caringi) - Add bugs to BugsFixed for 6.8.10 (Justin M. Forbes) - Turn on INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON for Fedora (Justin M. Forbes) - Reapply "drm/qxl: simplify qxl_fence_wait" (Linus Torvalds) - BugsFixed updates for 6.8.10 (Justin M. Forbes) - e1000e: change usleep_range to udelay in PHY mdic access (Vitaly Lifshits) - Linux v6.8.10

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2276325 - Lenovo M910Q hardware boot fails with "Bug: scheduling while atomic" when ethernet connected https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2276325 [ 2 ] Bug #2279678 - Missing automatic memory initialization: enable CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON=y https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2279678 [ 3 ] Bug #2279734 - Kernel 6.8.8 deadlocks with 100% cpu when run in qemu/kvm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2279734 [ 4 ] Bug #2280396 - CVE-2024-21823 kernel: dmaengine/idxd: hardware erratum allows potential security problem with direct access by untrusted application [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280396 [ 5 ] Bug #2280408 - CVE-2024-27401 kernel: firewire: nosy: ensure user_length is taken into account when fetching packet contents [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280408 [ 6 ] Bug #2280461 - CVE-2024-27400 kernel: drm/amdgpu: once more ...

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Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-92664ae6fe' 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: 6.8.10
Release: 300.fc40
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory kernel update Fedora moderate severity security issues performance fix

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