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Fedora 41: 2024-9fb3492511 Moderate: Kernel-Headers Memory Access Fix

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Calendar Grey December 16, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 41's kernel-headers upgrade improves functionality, broadens hardware compatibility, and addresses significant security vulnerabilities efficiently.
The 6.12.4 stable kernel rebase contains new features, additional hardware support and a number of important fixes across the tree.

Summary

Kernel-headers includes the C header files that specify the interface

between the Linux kernel and userspace libraries and programs. The

header files define structures and constants that are needed for

building most standard programs and are also needed for rebuilding the

glibc package.

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 update information memory access hardware support kernel-headers

Change Log

* Mon Dec 9 2024 Justin M. Forbes - 6.12.4-1 - Linux v6.12.4

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

Name: kernel-headers
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 6.12.4
Release: 200.fc41
URL: http://www.kernel.org/
Summary: Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora update information memory access hardware support kernel-headers

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