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Fedora 41 Kernel CVE-2025-40300 Critical VMSCAPE Threat Mitigation

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Calendar Grey September 14, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 41's kernel revisions prioritize the addressing of the VMSCAPE security flaw, accompanied by advisory FEDORA-2025-7hoia6023b.
The 6.16.7 stable kernel updates contain mitigation for the VMSCAPE vulnerability on x86 CPUs

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 6.16.7 stable kernel updates contain mitigation for the VMSCAPE vulnerability on x86 CPUs. This has been assigned CVE-2025-40300

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Change Log

* Thu Sep 11 2025 Justin M. Forbes [6.16.7-0] - Turn on vmscape mitigation for x86 (Justin M. Forbes) - Linux v6.16.7

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-4f0872847c 2025-09-14 01:34:47.455914+00:00 Name : kernel Product : Fedora 41 Version : 6.16.7 Release : 100.fc41 URL : https://www.kernel.org/ Summary : The Linux kernel Description : The kernel meta package

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-4f0872847c' 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: 6.16.7
Release: 100.fc41
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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