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Fedora 41 bpftool 2024-9fb3492511: critical memory access fix

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Calendar Grey December 16, 2024
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The updated bpftool package in Fedora offers significant improvements, including a kernel rebase and performance fixes, enabling better interactions and optimizations.
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 Fedora kernel system update memory access eBPF 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-2024-9fb3492511' 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 41
Version: 7.5.0
Release: 1.fc41
URL: https://github.com/libbpf/bpftool
Summary: Inspection and simple manipulation of eBPF programs and maps

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora kernel system update memory access eBPF bpftool

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