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Fedora 41: kernel 2024-b8b5224019 Security Advisory Updates

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Calendar Grey October 12, 2024
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Stay informed with Fedora's kernel update for bugfixes and security improvements. Update promptly to enhance system stability.
The 6.11.3 stable kernel update contains a number of important bugfixes across the tree.

Summary

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Update Information:

The 6.11.3 stable kernel update contains a number of important bugfixes across the tree.

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Change Log

* Thu Oct 10 2024 Justin M. Forbes [6.11.3-300] - Add F39 and F40 to release_targets (Justin M. Forbes) * Thu Oct 10 2024 Justin M. Forbes [6.11.3-0] - Add bugs to BugsFixed (Justin M. Forbes) - HID: amd_sfh: Switch to device-managed dmam_alloc_coherent() (Basavaraj Natikar) - wifi: rtw89: pci: early chips only enable 36-bit DMA on specific PCI hosts (Ping-Ke Shih) - HID: lenovo: Add support for Thinkpad X1 Tablet Gen 3 keyboard (Hans de Goede) - configs: fedora/x86: Set CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_CCP_DD=y (Hans de Goede) - common: arm64: build in some SCMI options (Peter Robinson) - common: Cleanup ARM_SCMI_TRANSPORT options (Peter Robinson) - Another BugsFixed entry (Justin M. Forbes) - Add bug to BugsFixed (Justin M. Forbes) - Turn on ZRAM_WRITEBACK for Fedora (Justin M. Forbes) - Config updates for 6.11.3 (Justin M. Forbes) - Linux v6.11.3

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2300530 - CVE-2024-41014 kernel: xfs: add bounds checking to xlog_recover_process_data [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2300530 [ 2 ] Bug #2300853 - CVE-2024-41013 kernel: xfs: don't walk off the end of a directory data block [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2300853 [ 3 ] Bug #2307147 - [Feature] Build kernel with CONFIG_ZRAM_WRITEBACK https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2307147 [ 4 ] Bug #2314331 - AMD SFH Driver Causes Memory Errors/ Page Faults https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2314331 [ 5 ] Bug #2314437 - Wifi stops working after upgrade to Fedora 41 Beta: rtw89_8852be fails to probe with error -110 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2314437

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-b8b5224019' 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 41
Version: 6.11.3
Release: 300.fc41
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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